1 debhelper (8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * update french translation.
5 * Fix french misspelling
8 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
9 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
10 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
11 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
12 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
16 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
22 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
26 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
28 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
32 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
34 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
35 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
36 introduced by the fix to #527990.
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
40 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
43 changes are planned for that mode.
44 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
45 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
46 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
47 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
48 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
49 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
50 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
51 (genesis) still uses them.
52 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
53 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
54 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
55 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
56 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
57 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
58 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
59 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
60 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
61 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
62 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
63 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
64 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
65 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
66 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
67 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
68 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
69 commands. (See #570039)
70 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
72 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
77 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
81 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
82 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
83 in control file or debhelper config files.
84 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
88 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
91 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
92 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
96 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
99 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
103 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
106 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
107 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
111 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Updated French translation.
114 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
115 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
116 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
117 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
119 * Typo. Closes: #571968
120 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
121 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
122 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
123 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
124 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
125 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
126 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
127 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
128 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
130 * dh: Improve documentation.
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
134 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
136 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
137 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
138 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
142 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
145 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
149 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
152 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
156 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
159 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
160 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
161 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
162 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
163 options that they do not support.
164 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
165 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
166 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
167 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
168 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
169 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
174 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
178 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
179 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
180 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
181 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
182 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
183 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
184 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
185 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
186 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
190 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
193 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
194 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
195 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
196 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
200 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Typo. Closes: #558654
203 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
204 installed. Closes: #558782
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
208 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
211 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
212 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
213 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
214 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
215 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
219 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
221 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
222 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
223 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
224 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
228 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
231 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
232 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
236 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
238 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
242 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
244 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
245 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
246 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
247 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
248 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
249 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
250 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
251 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
252 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
253 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
254 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
255 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
256 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
257 time soon.) Closes: #554509
258 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
260 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
261 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
262 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
263 document id. Closes: #555677
264 * Typo. Closes: #555659
265 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
266 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
267 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
268 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
270 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
271 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
272 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
277 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
280 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
281 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
282 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
283 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
284 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
285 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
286 translation (#494300 part 2)
289 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
291 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
292 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
293 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
294 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
295 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
299 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
302 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
303 (It was only run once due to logging.)
304 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
305 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
306 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
307 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
308 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
309 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
310 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
311 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
312 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
313 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
317 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
321 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
324 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
325 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
329 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
332 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
333 flag with arch all/any packages.
334 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
335 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
336 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
337 situation. Closes: #540794
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
341 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
345 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
346 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
347 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
348 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
349 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
352 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
353 the default. Closes: #538201
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
358 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
362 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
363 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
364 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
365 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
366 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
368 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
369 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
370 * Above Closes: #491117
371 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
376 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
382 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
383 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
384 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
388 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
391 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
392 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
393 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
394 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
395 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
400 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
403 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
404 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
408 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
410 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
414 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
416 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
417 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
419 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
420 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
421 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
425 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
427 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
428 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
432 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
434 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
438 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
440 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
441 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
442 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
447 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
449 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
453 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
456 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
457 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
458 created by using `python' first during build and install.
460 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
465 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
467 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
471 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
473 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
474 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
478 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
480 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
484 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
486 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
490 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
492 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
493 contributed by Modestas Vainius
494 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
495 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
496 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
497 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
498 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
499 that support it. Closes: #480577
500 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
501 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
502 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
504 - Adds support for cmake.
505 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
506 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
508 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
510 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
511 that use them. The options are:
512 --sourcedir, --destdir
513 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
514 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
515 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
516 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
517 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
521 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
527 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
530 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
531 default. Closes: #537140
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
535 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
538 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
539 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
543 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
546 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
550 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
553 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
557 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
560 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
562 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
563 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
564 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
568 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
571 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
572 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
573 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
577 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
580 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
581 warning or deprecation message.
582 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
583 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
584 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
585 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
586 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
587 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
588 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
589 Closes: #534639, #357434
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
593 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
599 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
602 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
603 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
604 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
605 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
607 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
608 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
609 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
613 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
619 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
626 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
629 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
633 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
637 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
638 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
640 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
641 file support. Closes: #494914
642 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
646 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
649 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
650 parameters. Closes: #527256
651 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
652 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
653 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
657 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
661 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
662 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
663 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
667 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
670 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
671 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
672 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
676 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
679 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
680 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
682 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
683 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
684 by triggers). Closes: #521181
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
688 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
692 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
696 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
698 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
699 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
700 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
701 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
702 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
707 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
713 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
716 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
717 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
718 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
719 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
720 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
722 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
723 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
724 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
725 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
726 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
727 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
731 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
734 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
735 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
736 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
737 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
738 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
740 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
744 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
746 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
750 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
752 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
753 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
754 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
755 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
756 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
757 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
758 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
759 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
760 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
761 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
762 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
766 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
768 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
769 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
771 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
772 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
773 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
774 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
776 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
777 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
781 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
783 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
784 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
785 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
786 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
787 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
788 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
789 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
791 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
792 that uses them. Affected options are:
793 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
794 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
795 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
796 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
797 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
798 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
799 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
800 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
801 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
802 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
803 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
804 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
808 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
815 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
821 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
823 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
824 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
826 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
827 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
828 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
829 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
830 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
832 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
834 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
835 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
836 rules (see bug #509756).
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
840 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
846 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
847 * Typo. Closes: #493062
848 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
849 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
853 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
856 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
857 empty files. Closes: #490937
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
861 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
867 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
874 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
877 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
878 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
879 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
880 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
885 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
887 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
888 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
889 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
890 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
894 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
897 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
898 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
899 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
900 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
901 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
905 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
912 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
914 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
915 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
916 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
917 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
918 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
919 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
920 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
921 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
922 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
923 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
927 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
930 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
931 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
932 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
933 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
935 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
936 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
937 breaking backwards compatibility.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
941 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
944 message in perl 5.10.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
948 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
954 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Convert copyright file to new format.
957 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
961 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
964 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
968 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
971 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
972 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
973 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
974 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
975 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
976 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
977 logging by dh_listpackages.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
981 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
984 run and there are no packages of that type.
985 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
986 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
987 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
988 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
990 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
991 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
995 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
997 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
998 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
999 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1003 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1006 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1007 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1009 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1010 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1011 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1012 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1013 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1014 planned but not yet implemented.)
1015 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1016 if the Makefile has such a target.
1017 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1018 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1019 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1020 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1021 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1022 but not yet implemented.)
1023 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1024 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1025 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1026 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1027 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1029 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1031 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1032 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1034 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1035 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1036 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1041 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1044 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1045 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1049 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1051 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1052 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1053 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1057 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1063 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1069 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1072 just those installed by the program.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1076 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1079 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1080 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1084 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1087 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1088 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1089 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1090 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1094 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1097 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1098 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1102 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1105 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1106 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1110 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1113 with policy. Closes: #461392
1114 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1115 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1116 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1117 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1118 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1122 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1125 Closes: #460340, #460351
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1129 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1132 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1133 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1134 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1135 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1139 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1142 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1143 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1144 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1145 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1146 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1147 package build directory won't work.
1148 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1149 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1150 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1151 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1152 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1153 mode. Closes: #459426
1154 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1159 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1162 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1166 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1170 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1171 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1172 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1173 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1174 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1175 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1179 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1182 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1183 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1184 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1185 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1189 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1192 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1193 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1194 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1195 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1196 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1200 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1203 debian/package.triggers files.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1207 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1210 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1214 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1217 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1218 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1219 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1220 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1225 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1228 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1232 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1235 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1236 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1238 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1243 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1247 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1248 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1249 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1253 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1260 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1267 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1270 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1272 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1273 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1274 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1276 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1277 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1278 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1282 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1285 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1286 * Update urls to web page.
1287 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1288 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1289 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1290 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1294 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1297 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1298 - typo in alternatives call
1299 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1301 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1302 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1306 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1309 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1314 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1320 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1326 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1329 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1331 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1332 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1333 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1334 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1335 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1336 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1337 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1338 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1339 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1340 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1341 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1345 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1348 package install. Closes: #415717
1349 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1350 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1351 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1352 script and then remove the python files.
1353 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1354 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1355 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1356 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1357 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1358 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1359 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1360 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1361 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1362 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1363 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1364 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1365 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1369 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Correct typo in french translation
1375 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1376 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1378 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1380 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1381 Closes: #406921, #381940
1382 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1384 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1385 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1386 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1387 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1388 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1389 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1390 specified). Closes: #381851
1391 * Misc minor changes.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1395 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1402 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1403 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1407 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1413 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1414 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1417 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1418 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1420 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1421 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1422 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1423 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1427 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1430 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1433 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1437 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1443 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1449 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1450 a difficult situation.
1451 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1452 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1453 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1454 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1455 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1456 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1457 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1458 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1459 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1460 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1464 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Non-maintainer upload.
1467 * Update of dh_python
1468 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1469 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1471 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1472 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1473 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1474 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1475 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1477 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1479 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * Non-maintainer upload.
1482 * Update of dh_python
1483 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1484 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1485 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1486 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1487 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1488 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1489 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1490 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1491 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1492 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1494 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1495 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1496 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1497 the not too-distant future).
1498 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1499 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1500 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1501 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1502 thus made the build fail.
1504 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1506 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Non-maintainer upload.
1509 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1511 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1513 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1516 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1517 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1518 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1519 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1520 package. Closes: #301424
1521 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1522 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1523 fonts). Closes: #372686
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1527 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1533 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1534 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1535 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1536 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1537 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1538 above, but already depends on that.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1542 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1545 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1546 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1547 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1548 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1549 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1553 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1559 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1565 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1566 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1570 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1573 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1577 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1581 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1582 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1583 new version (0.24.1).
1584 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1585 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1588 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1589 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1590 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1591 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1592 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1593 new directory on their own.
1594 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1595 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1599 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1602 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1603 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1604 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1605 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1609 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1612 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1613 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1614 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1615 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1616 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1620 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1626 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1630 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1631 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1635 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1636 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1640 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1642 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1643 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1645 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1646 ignored. Closes: #337664
1648 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1653 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1659 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1664 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1665 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1666 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1667 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1668 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1669 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1670 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1674 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1677 version. Closes: #350607
1678 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1679 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1680 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1681 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1685 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1688 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1689 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1690 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1694 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1701 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1707 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1710 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1714 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1717 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1718 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1719 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1720 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1721 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1722 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1726 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1729 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1730 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1735 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1738 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1742 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1745 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1749 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1752 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1753 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1754 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1755 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1756 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1757 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1761 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1765 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1766 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1767 link. Closes: #346405
1768 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1770 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1771 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1772 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1773 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1774 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1775 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1776 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1780 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1787 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1793 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1796 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1800 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1803 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1808 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1812 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1813 installed. Closes: #342033
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1817 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1820 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1821 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1822 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1827 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1833 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1839 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1843 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1844 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1845 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1849 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1852 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1857 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1864 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1870 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1873 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1874 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1875 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1876 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1877 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1878 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1879 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1881 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1885 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1888 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1889 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1893 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1896 in standard man dirs.
1897 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1901 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1907 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1910 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1915 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1929 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1932 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1933 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1937 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1940 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1941 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1942 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1944 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1946 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1952 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1958 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1961 mode. Closes: #324161
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1965 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1968 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1969 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1970 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1971 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1976 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1979 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1980 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1981 is necesary for sanity.
1982 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1983 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1988 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1990 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1991 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1995 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1998 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2002 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2008 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2011 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2012 released, so use at your own risk.
2013 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2014 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2016 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2017 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2018 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2019 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2020 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2021 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2022 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2023 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2024 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2025 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2026 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2027 including twice per config file line now..
2028 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2029 and simplfy the rules file.
2030 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2031 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2032 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2034 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2035 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2039 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2042 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2046 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2049 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2053 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2056 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2060 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2063 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2064 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2065 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2066 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2067 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2068 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2072 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2075 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2076 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2077 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2082 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2085 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2086 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2091 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2094 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2095 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2096 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2101 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2104 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2105 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2106 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2110 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2116 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2123 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2126 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2127 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2128 unknown. Closes: #282924
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2132 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2139 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Spanish man page updates.
2142 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2147 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2156 * dh_desktop: reindent
2157 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2158 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2162 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2168 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2170 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2174 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2176 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2180 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2183 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2184 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2188 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2194 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2200 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2207 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2210 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2214 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2217 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2218 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2219 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2220 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2221 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2222 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2224 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2225 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2226 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2227 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2228 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2229 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2230 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2231 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2232 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2233 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2234 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2235 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2236 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2237 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2238 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2239 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2243 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2250 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2253 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2257 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2260 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2264 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2267 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2271 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2274 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2278 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2284 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2290 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2296 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2299 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2300 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2301 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2305 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2308 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2312 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2315 but occasionally right and necessary.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2319 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2322 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2323 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2324 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2325 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2326 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2330 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2333 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2335 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2336 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2337 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2338 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2339 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2340 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2341 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2342 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2343 postinst scripts for udebs.
2344 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2348 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2351 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2353 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2354 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2358 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2364 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2371 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2378 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2381 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2385 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2388 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2392 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2395 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2398 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2399 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2403 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2409 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2412 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2416 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2419 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2420 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2421 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2423 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2425 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2426 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2427 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2431 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2434 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2439 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2442 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2443 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2444 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2449 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2455 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2461 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2464 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2465 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2466 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2467 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2468 associated -dbg packages.
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2472 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2475 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2479 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2482 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2486 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2489 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2493 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2496 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2504 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2511 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2516 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2519 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2523 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2527 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2528 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2529 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2530 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2531 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2532 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2533 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2534 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2535 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2536 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2540 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2543 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2548 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2551 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2552 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2556 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2559 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2560 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2565 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2568 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2572 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2575 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2579 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2582 out section number. Closes: #204731
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2586 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2593 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2599 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2605 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2608 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2609 removal. Closes: #204286
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2613 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2616 renaming. Closes: #203548
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2620 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2623 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2624 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2628 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2634 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2640 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2646 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2649 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2650 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2651 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2658 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2659 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2663 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2669 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2676 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2679 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2684 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2687 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2691 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2694 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2696 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2697 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2701 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2704 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2709 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2712 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2716 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2722 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2724 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2728 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2731 it break hard links (see #188663).
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2735 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2738 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2742 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2748 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2752 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2753 debconf-mergetemplates
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2757 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2760 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2764 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2767 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2771 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2774 * Update debhelper(1).
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2778 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2781 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2782 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2783 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2784 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2785 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2789 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2792 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2793 the shell. Closes: #178524
2794 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2798 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2801 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2805 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2808 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2812 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2815 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2816 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2817 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2818 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2823 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2826 files from installation.
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2830 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2833 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2834 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2838 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2841 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2845 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2848 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2852 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2858 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2864 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2868 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2869 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2871 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2875 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2878 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2879 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2880 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2881 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2885 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2888 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2892 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2895 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2896 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2900 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2904 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2909 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2915 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2919 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2920 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2921 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2926 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2929 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2930 practice. Closes: #163303
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2934 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2940 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2947 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2950 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2952 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2953 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2954 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2955 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2956 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2960 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2963 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2968 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2974 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2981 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2984 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2995 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3001 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3007 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3014 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3017 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3018 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3019 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3020 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3025 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3031 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3038 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3041 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3042 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3046 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3049 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3050 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3051 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3052 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3053 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3057 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3060 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3062 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3067 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3070 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3074 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3077 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3078 right thing. Closes: #150644
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3082 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Stupid, evil typo.
3085 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3089 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3096 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3099 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3100 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3105 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3111 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3114 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3118 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3121 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3122 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3127 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3130 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3134 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3140 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3143 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3144 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3148 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3154 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Removing perl warning message.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3160 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3163 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3164 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3165 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3166 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3167 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3168 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3169 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3170 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3174 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3180 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3187 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3190 debconf-mergetemplate.
3191 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3192 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3196 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3199 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3200 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3201 dh_install, which ...
3202 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3203 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3204 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3205 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3206 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3207 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3208 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3209 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3210 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3211 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3212 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3213 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3214 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3215 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3216 other minor changes.
3217 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3218 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3219 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3220 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3221 course there's -X ..)
3222 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3223 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3224 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3226 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3227 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3228 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3229 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3230 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3235 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3241 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3244 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3248 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3254 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3260 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3266 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3272 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3275 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3276 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3277 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3278 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3280 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3281 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3285 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3291 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3294 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3298 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3301 upset. Closes: #131322
3303 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3305 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3308 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3309 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3310 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3311 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3312 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3313 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3314 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3315 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3316 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3317 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3318 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3319 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3320 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3321 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3322 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3324 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3328 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3331 - Better indenting of generated code.
3332 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3336 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3340 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3341 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3342 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3343 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3344 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3345 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3346 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3350 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3353 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3357 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3360 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3361 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3362 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3363 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3364 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3365 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3366 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3367 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3368 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3369 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3370 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3371 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3372 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3373 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3374 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3379 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3385 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3388 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3389 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3393 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3396 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3397 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3401 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3407 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3410 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3411 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3412 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3413 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3414 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3419 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3425 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3428 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3432 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3435 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3440 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3446 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3449 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3453 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3459 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3463 Also some indentation fixes.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3467 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3470 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3471 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3472 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3473 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3474 Closes: #106514, #85520
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3478 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3484 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3490 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3496 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3502 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3508 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3511 change it in debhelper v4..
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3515 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3521 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3524 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3528 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3531 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3535 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3541 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3544 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3545 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3546 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3547 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3548 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3549 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3550 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3551 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3552 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3553 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3554 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3555 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3559 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3562 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3566 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3573 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3576 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3577 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3578 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3579 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3580 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3581 program those options go to. So, for example,
3582 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3583 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3584 something complex. Closes: #89311
3585 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3589 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3592 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3593 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3594 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3598 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3601 through loop. Closes: #98598
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3605 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * Missing semi-colon.
3608 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3609 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3613 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3616 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3617 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3618 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3622 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3625 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3626 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3630 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3633 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3637 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3640 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3641 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3645 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3648 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3649 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3650 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3654 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3657 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3658 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3659 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3663 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3666 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3670 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3676 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3682 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3688 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3694 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3697 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3701 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3704 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3705 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3706 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3707 followed. Closes: #85483
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3711 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3713 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3714 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3715 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3719 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3722 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3723 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3724 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3725 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3726 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3727 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3728 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3729 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3730 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3731 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3732 Closes: #88464, #77743
3733 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3734 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3735 us to deal with that gracefully.
3736 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3738 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3739 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3740 a while, Closes: #51225
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3744 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3750 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3753 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3757 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3761 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3766 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3769 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3770 don't make packlist files.
3771 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3772 debhelper coding standards.
3773 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3774 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3778 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3781 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3785 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3788 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3789 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3790 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3791 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3792 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3793 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3794 but is mildly deprecated.
3795 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3796 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3797 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3798 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3799 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3800 switching to statoverrides..
3801 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3802 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3803 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3804 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3805 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3806 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3808 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3809 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3810 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3811 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3812 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3813 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3814 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3815 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3816 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3818 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3819 variable names, pod man pages).
3820 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3821 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3822 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3823 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3824 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3825 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3826 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3830 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3836 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3843 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3846 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3850 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3852 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3853 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3854 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3858 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3860 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3861 they were previously ignored.
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3865 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3867 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3868 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3872 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3874 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3875 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3876 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3880 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3882 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3886 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3888 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3889 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3893 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3895 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3896 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3897 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3898 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3899 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3900 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3901 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3902 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3903 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3904 it is an obsolete program.
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3908 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3910 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3914 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3918 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3920 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3924 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3926 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3928 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3930 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3934 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3940 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * typo: Closes, #78567
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3946 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3952 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3958 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3961 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3962 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3963 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3964 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3965 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3969 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3972 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3977 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3980 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3981 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3982 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3983 backwards-compatibility.
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3987 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3990 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3991 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3992 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3993 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3994 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3995 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3997 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3998 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3999 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4001 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4003 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4004 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4005 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4006 should now be raised to severity important..
4007 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4008 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4012 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4015 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4020 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4026 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4032 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4038 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4045 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4048 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4049 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4050 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4051 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4055 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4061 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4064 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4065 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4066 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4067 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4068 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4069 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4074 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4077 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4081 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4087 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4090 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4095 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4098 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4099 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4100 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4101 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4105 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4109 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4112 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4115 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4116 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4119 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4121 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4122 the TODO entry about it.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4126 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4133 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4136 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4137 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4141 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4144 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4145 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4146 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4147 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4151 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4157 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4164 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4167 (this appears to be logal).
4169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4171 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4173 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4174 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4175 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4176 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4177 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4181 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4190 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4191 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4192 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4193 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4203 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4206 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4210 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4217 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4220 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4221 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4222 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4227 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4234 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4240 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4243 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4244 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4245 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4246 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4247 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4248 notice until v2 is complete.
4249 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4250 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4251 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4252 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4253 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4254 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4256 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4257 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4258 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4259 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4263 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4276 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4279 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4283 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4290 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4293 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4294 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4295 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4296 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4304 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4305 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4306 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4311 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4314 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4315 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4319 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4322 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4326 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4329 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4333 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4340 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4343 depend on the build and install targets.
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4347 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4350 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4361 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4367 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4373 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4376 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4377 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4378 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4379 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4380 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4381 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4383 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4384 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4385 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4386 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4387 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4388 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4389 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4393 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4399 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4405 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4408 right place. Closes: #55065
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4412 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4419 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4422 * Copyright date updates.
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4426 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4429 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4434 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4440 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4447 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4453 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4459 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4465 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4468 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4469 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4470 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4471 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4472 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4473 bits until all files have been registered.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4477 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * dh_installmanpages:
4480 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4481 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4482 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4483 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4484 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4485 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4486 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4487 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4488 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4489 otherwise change the result at all.
4491 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4492 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4493 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4494 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4495 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4500 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4506 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4509 act on files that don't exist.
4510 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4511 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4512 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4514 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4515 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4516 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4517 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4521 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4527 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4533 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4536 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4540 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4543 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4545 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4546 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4547 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4551 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4554 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4555 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4556 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4557 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4558 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4559 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4560 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4562 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4564 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4568 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4575 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4581 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4590 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4594 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4600 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4606 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4609 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4610 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4611 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4612 I made some changes, though:
4613 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4614 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4615 that is a clear violation of policy.
4616 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4617 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4618 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4619 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4620 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4621 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4622 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4623 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4624 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4626 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4630 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4636 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4639 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4643 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4646 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4647 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4652 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4658 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4665 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4668 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4669 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4670 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4671 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4672 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4673 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4674 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4678 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4684 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4688 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4689 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4693 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4699 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4702 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4706 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4708 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4709 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4710 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4714 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4716 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4721 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4725 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4729 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4732 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4733 for the dependancies to be generated.
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4737 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4740 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4744 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4747 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4748 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4749 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4754 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4757 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4758 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4762 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4768 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4774 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4777 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4781 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4787 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4790 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4791 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4792 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4793 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4794 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4795 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4796 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4797 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4798 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4799 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4800 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4801 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4805 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4808 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4809 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4811 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4812 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4813 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4814 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4815 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4816 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4818 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4819 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4823 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4826 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4830 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4837 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4840 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4845 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4848 for building debhelper.
4849 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4853 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4855 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4860 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4863 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4867 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4870 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4871 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4872 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4873 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4874 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4875 it's always available.
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4879 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4882 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4883 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4884 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4888 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4891 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4892 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4896 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4902 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4905 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4909 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4915 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4918 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4919 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4920 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4924 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4927 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4932 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4935 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4936 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4938 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4939 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4943 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4949 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4955 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4958 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4962 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4965 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4966 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4968 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4972 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4975 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4976 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4977 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4981 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4984 things if CDPATH is set.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4988 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4994 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4997 seems to make sense for the transition.
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5001 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5004 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5009 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5012 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5013 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5017 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5020 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5024 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5027 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5028 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5029 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5030 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5034 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5040 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5043 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5044 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5045 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5046 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5047 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5048 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5049 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5050 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5051 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5052 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5057 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5060 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5061 * README: mention doc/v2
5062 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5063 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5067 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5069 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5070 be using this script RSN.
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5074 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5077 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5078 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5079 more than 1 init script.
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5083 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5086 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5090 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * Changed perl version detection.
5093 * Changed call to find.
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5097 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5100 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5102 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5107 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * Really include dh_installpam.
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5113 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5116 * Wrote man page for same.
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5120 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5123 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5124 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5129 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5136 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5139 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5140 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5141 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5142 x bit was being set!
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5146 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5149 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5150 well. (Closes: 38900)
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5154 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5157 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5158 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5162 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5168 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5175 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5181 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5184 help from Julian Gilbey.
5185 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5186 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5187 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5188 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5189 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5190 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5191 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5196 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5202 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5209 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5215 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5221 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5223 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5224 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5228 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5231 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5235 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5238 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5242 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5248 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5251 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5255 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5261 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5263 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5267 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5270 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5271 may be deleted. (#35845)
5273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5275 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5277 * Various man page enhancements.
5278 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5283 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5286 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5287 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5291 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5294 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5295 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5296 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5298 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5299 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5304 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5310 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * Another very minor typo fix.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5316 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * Very minor typo fix.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5322 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5325 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5326 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5330 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5336 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5339 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5340 variables properly (#34850).
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5344 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5350 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5353 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5354 (automatically generated by build process).
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5358 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5360 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5364 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5367 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5368 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5370 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5374 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5377 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5381 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * README: minor typo fix.
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5387 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5390 leave it at that. :-)
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5394 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5400 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5406 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5409 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5410 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5411 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5415 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5418 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5422 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5425 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5429 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5432 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5433 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5434 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5435 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5439 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5442 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5443 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5444 Craig Small for spotting this.
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5448 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5451 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5452 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5456 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5462 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5465 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5469 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5471 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5472 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5473 working on the last version of debhelper.
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5477 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5480 being made. (#23255)
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5484 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5490 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5493 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5497 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5500 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5501 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5502 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5503 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5507 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5510 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5511 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5512 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5513 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5515 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5516 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5518 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5523 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5529 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5535 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5537 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5538 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5539 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5540 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5541 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5542 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5543 suidregister actually supports it.
5544 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5545 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5549 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5556 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5559 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5560 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5561 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5562 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5563 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5564 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5565 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5569 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5571 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5572 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5576 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5579 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5580 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5581 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5582 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5586 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5589 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5591 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5592 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5593 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5594 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5595 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5596 effect, either. (#30118)
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5600 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5606 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5609 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5610 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5614 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5620 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5623 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5624 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5625 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5626 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5630 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5632 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5633 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5634 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5638 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5644 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5647 packages, painlessly.
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5651 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5657 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5663 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5669 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * The perl conversion is complete.
5673 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5675 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5676 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5677 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5682 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5684 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5685 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5686 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5687 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5691 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5694 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5696 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5698 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5699 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5703 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5706 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5707 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5711 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5717 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5719 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5720 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5721 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5722 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5723 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5724 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5728 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5731 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5732 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5733 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5734 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5738 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5741 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5745 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5748 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5749 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5750 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5751 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5752 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5753 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5754 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5755 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5759 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5761 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5765 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5768 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5769 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5770 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5775 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5778 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5782 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5785 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5789 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5792 sections of shared libraries.
5793 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5794 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5795 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5796 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5797 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5798 things you don't want them to.
5799 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5800 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5804 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5807 shared libraries. (#26414)
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5811 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5813 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5814 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5815 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5816 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5820 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5824 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5826 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5827 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5828 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5829 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5830 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5834 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5837 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5841 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5844 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5845 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5850 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5853 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5857 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5860 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5861 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5862 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5863 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5864 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5866 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5867 remove debian/files properly.
5868 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5869 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5870 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5871 * Removed bogus menu file.
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5875 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5878 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5882 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5885 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5886 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5887 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5888 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5889 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5890 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5894 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5896 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5897 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5898 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5899 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5900 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5904 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5911 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5914 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5915 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5917 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5918 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5919 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5920 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5921 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5922 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5926 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5929 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5930 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5931 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5932 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5933 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5934 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5935 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5936 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5937 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5938 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5939 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5940 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5941 passed any switches.
5942 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5946 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5949 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5950 at all for a long while.
5951 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5952 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5953 large chunks in the process.
5954 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5955 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5956 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5961 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5964 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5966 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5971 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5974 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5975 that don't always have the same files in them.
5976 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5977 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5978 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5982 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5984 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5986 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5987 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5988 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5989 updating 27 man pages.
5990 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5991 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5992 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5993 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5994 programs act on. (#25247)
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5998 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6002 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6003 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6004 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6005 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6006 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6007 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6012 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6019 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6021 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6026 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6029 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6033 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6039 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6042 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6043 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6044 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6045 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6046 package by accident.
6047 * Is version 1.0 next?
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6051 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6054 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6055 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6059 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6062 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6063 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6064 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6065 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6066 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6068 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6073 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6076 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6077 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6081 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6084 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6088 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6091 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6092 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6097 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6099 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6103 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6105 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6106 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6107 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6112 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6114 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6118 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6121 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6122 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6123 past week. Thanks, guys!
6125 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6126 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6127 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6128 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6129 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6130 would do in the same situation.
6131 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6132 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6134 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6136 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6137 permissions changed.
6138 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6139 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6140 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6141 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6142 files are treated identically.
6143 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6144 * Minor man page fixes.
6145 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6146 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6147 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6151 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6153 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6154 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6155 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6156 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6157 use -X multiple times, too.
6158 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6159 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6163 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6165 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6166 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6167 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6171 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6174 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6178 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6181 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6182 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6183 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6184 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6185 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6186 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6187 shape if you're starting a new package.
6189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6191 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6193 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6194 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6198 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6201 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6202 because of missing symlinks.
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6206 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6208 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6212 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6214 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6215 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6216 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6217 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6218 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6219 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6221 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6222 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6226 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6228 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6229 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6230 to be changed after the fact :-)
6231 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6235 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6237 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6238 no version string after the -V.
6240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6242 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6244 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6245 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6250 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6252 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6253 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6257 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6259 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6260 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6261 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6262 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6263 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6264 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6265 I always welcome corrections!
6267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6269 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6271 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6275 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6277 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6278 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6279 * Documented this new switch.
6281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6283 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6285 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6286 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6287 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6288 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6289 no packages use the old behavior.
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6293 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6296 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6297 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6301 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6303 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6304 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6308 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6310 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6314 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6316 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6317 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6321 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6323 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6324 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6325 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6326 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6330 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6336 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6338 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6339 into the source package by accident.
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6343 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6345 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6346 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6347 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6348 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6349 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6350 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6351 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6356 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6358 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6360 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6361 inspired to implement some of it.
6362 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6366 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6368 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6369 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6373 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6375 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6376 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6377 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6381 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6383 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6384 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6385 have done.) (#17598)
6387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6389 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6391 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6395 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6397 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6401 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6403 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6404 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6408 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6410 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6411 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6412 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6416 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6418 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6419 argument processor in perl.
6420 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6421 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6422 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6423 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6427 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6429 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6430 type directories. (#16933)
6431 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6432 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6433 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6434 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6435 are supported. (#16935)
6436 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6441 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6443 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6444 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6448 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6450 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6452 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6453 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6454 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6455 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6456 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6457 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6461 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6463 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6464 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6465 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6467 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6468 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6469 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6470 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6471 a given package, or -i or -a.
6472 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6473 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6474 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6475 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6476 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6477 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6478 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6479 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6480 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6482 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6483 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6484 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6488 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6491 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6492 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6497 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6499 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6500 does not have a section.
6502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6504 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6506 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6507 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6508 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6509 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6513 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6515 * Fixed typo #16215.
6517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6519 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6521 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6522 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6523 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6524 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6525 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6526 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6531 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6533 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6534 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6535 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6536 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6541 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6547 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6549 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6553 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6555 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6556 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6557 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6558 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6559 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6560 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6561 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6565 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6567 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6571 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6573 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6574 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6578 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6580 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6581 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6582 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6583 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6587 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6589 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6590 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6594 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6596 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6600 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6602 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6603 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6607 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6609 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6610 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6614 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6616 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6620 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6622 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6623 postinst, postrm, etc.
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6627 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6633 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6635 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6636 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6637 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6638 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6639 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6640 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6644 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6646 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6647 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6648 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6652 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6654 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6655 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6659 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6661 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6662 installing package files into.
6663 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6668 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6670 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6672 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6676 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6678 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6682 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6684 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6685 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6689 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6691 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6692 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6693 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6694 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6695 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6699 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6701 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6702 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6703 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6704 multiple binary packages.
6705 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6706 should rebuild them with this version.
6707 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6711 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6713 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6714 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6718 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6720 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6721 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6725 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6727 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6728 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6729 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6730 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6731 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6732 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6733 debian/README.debian.
6734 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6735 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6736 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6737 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6738 in a few situations.)
6740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6742 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6744 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6748 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6750 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6754 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6756 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6757 * Fixed several man pages.
6759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6761 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6763 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6764 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6765 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6769 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6771 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6772 is ready for general use.
6773 * Added man pages for all commands.
6774 * Multiple binary package support.
6775 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6776 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6777 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6779 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6780 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6781 auto-installed as parameters.
6782 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6784 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6787 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6788 the package build directory it is to act on.
6789 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6790 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6791 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6795 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6797 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6798 ready to replace debstd.
6800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400