1 debhelper (8.9.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
4 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
5 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
6 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
7 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:16:48 -0400
11 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
13 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
14 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
15 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
16 the targets. Closes: #629139
18 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
19 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
20 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
21 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
22 are already set to other values will not be changed.
24 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
25 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
26 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
27 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
28 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
33 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
39 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
42 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
43 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
47 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
50 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
51 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
52 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
53 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
54 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
55 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
56 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
61 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
65 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
66 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
68 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
69 changes may be added to that mode.
70 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
71 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
72 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
73 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
74 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
75 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
76 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
77 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
78 * Removed old example rules files.
79 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
83 * update french translation.
84 * Fix french misspelling.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
88 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
91 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
95 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
98 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
100 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
101 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
102 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
103 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
104 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
108 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
111 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
112 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
113 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
114 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
115 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
116 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
118 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
119 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
120 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
121 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
122 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
123 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
124 (Thanks, David Prévot)
125 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
126 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
127 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
128 target fails. Closes: #601037
129 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
131 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
132 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
133 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
134 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
135 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
137 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
138 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
140 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
141 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
142 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
144 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
146 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
149 * update french translation.
150 * Fix french misspelling.
151 * French translation update after massive man page typography
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
155 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
161 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
165 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
167 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
171 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
173 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
174 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
175 introduced by the fix to #527990.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
179 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
182 changes are planned for that mode.
183 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
184 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
185 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
186 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
187 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
188 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
189 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
190 (genesis) still uses them.
191 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
192 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
193 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
194 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
195 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
196 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
197 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
198 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
199 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
200 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
201 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
202 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
203 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
204 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
205 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
206 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
207 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
208 commands. (See #570039)
209 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
211 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
216 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
220 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
221 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
222 in control file or debhelper config files.
223 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
227 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
230 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
231 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
235 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
238 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
242 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
245 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
246 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
250 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Updated French translation.
253 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
254 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
255 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
256 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
258 * Typo. Closes: #571968
259 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
260 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
261 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
262 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
263 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
264 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
265 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
266 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
267 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
269 * dh: Improve documentation.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
273 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
275 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
276 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
277 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
281 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
284 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
288 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
291 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
295 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
298 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
299 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
300 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
301 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
302 options that they do not support.
303 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
304 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
305 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
306 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
307 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
308 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
313 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
317 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
318 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
319 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
320 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
321 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
322 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
323 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
324 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
325 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
329 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
332 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
333 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
334 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
335 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
339 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Typo. Closes: #558654
342 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
343 installed. Closes: #558782
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
347 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
349 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
350 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
351 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
352 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
353 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
354 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
358 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
360 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
361 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
362 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
363 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
367 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
370 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
371 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
375 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
377 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
381 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
383 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
384 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
385 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
386 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
387 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
388 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
389 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
390 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
391 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
392 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
393 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
394 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
395 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
396 time soon.) Closes: #554509
397 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
399 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
400 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
401 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
402 document id. Closes: #555677
403 * Typo. Closes: #555659
404 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
405 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
406 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
407 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
409 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
410 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
411 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
416 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
419 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
420 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
421 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
422 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
423 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
424 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
425 translation (#494300 part 2)
428 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
430 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
431 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
432 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
433 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
434 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
438 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
440 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
441 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
442 (It was only run once due to logging.)
443 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
444 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
445 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
446 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
447 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
448 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
449 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
450 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
451 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
452 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
456 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
460 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
463 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
464 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
468 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
471 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
472 flag with arch all/any packages.
473 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
474 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
475 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
476 situation. Closes: #540794
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
480 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
484 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
485 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
486 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
487 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
488 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
491 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
492 the default. Closes: #538201
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
497 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
501 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
502 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
503 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
504 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
505 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
507 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
508 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
509 * Above Closes: #491117
510 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
515 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
521 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
522 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
523 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
527 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
530 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
531 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
532 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
533 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
534 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
539 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
542 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
543 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
547 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
549 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
553 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
555 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
556 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
558 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
559 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
560 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
564 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
566 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
567 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
571 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
577 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
579 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
580 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
581 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
586 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
588 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
592 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
595 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
596 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
597 created by using `python' first during build and install.
599 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
604 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
606 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
610 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
612 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
613 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
617 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
619 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
623 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
625 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
629 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
631 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
632 contributed by Modestas Vainius
633 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
634 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
635 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
636 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
637 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
638 that support it. Closes: #480577
639 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
640 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
641 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
643 - Adds support for cmake.
644 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
645 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
647 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
649 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
650 that use them. The options are:
651 --sourcedir, --destdir
652 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
653 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
654 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
655 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
656 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
660 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
666 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
669 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
670 default. Closes: #537140
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
674 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
677 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
678 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
682 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
685 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
689 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
692 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
696 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
699 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
701 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
702 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
703 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
707 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
710 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
711 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
712 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
716 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
719 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
720 warning or deprecation message.
721 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
722 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
723 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
724 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
725 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
726 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
727 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
728 Closes: #534639, #357434
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
732 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
738 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
741 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
742 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
743 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
744 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
746 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
747 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
748 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
752 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
758 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
765 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
768 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
772 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
774 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
776 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
777 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
779 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
780 file support. Closes: #494914
781 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
785 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
788 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
789 parameters. Closes: #527256
790 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
791 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
792 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
796 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
800 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
801 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
802 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
806 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
809 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
810 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
811 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
815 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
818 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
819 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
821 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
822 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
823 by triggers). Closes: #521181
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
827 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
831 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
835 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
838 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
839 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
840 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
841 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
846 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
852 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
855 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
856 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
857 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
858 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
859 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
861 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
862 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
863 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
864 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
865 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
866 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
870 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
872 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
873 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
874 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
875 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
876 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
877 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
879 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
883 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
885 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
889 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
891 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
892 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
893 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
894 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
895 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
896 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
897 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
898 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
899 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
900 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
901 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
905 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
907 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
908 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
910 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
911 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
912 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
913 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
915 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
916 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
920 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
922 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
923 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
924 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
925 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
926 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
927 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
928 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
930 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
931 that uses them. Affected options are:
932 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
933 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
934 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
935 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
936 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
937 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
938 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
939 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
940 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
941 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
942 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
943 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
947 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
954 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
960 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
962 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
963 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
965 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
966 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
967 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
968 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
969 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
971 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
973 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
974 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
975 rules (see bug #509756).
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
979 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
985 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
986 * Typo. Closes: #493062
987 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
988 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
992 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
995 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
996 empty files. Closes: #490937
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1000 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1006 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1013 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1016 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1017 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1018 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1019 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1024 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1026 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1027 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1028 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1029 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1033 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1036 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1037 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1038 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1039 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1040 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1044 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1051 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1054 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1055 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1056 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1057 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1058 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1059 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1060 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1061 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1062 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1066 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1069 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1070 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1071 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1072 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1074 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1075 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1076 breaking backwards compatibility.
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1080 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1083 message in perl 5.10.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1087 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1093 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1096 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1100 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1103 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1107 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1110 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1111 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1112 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1113 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1114 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1115 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1116 logging by dh_listpackages.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1120 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1123 run and there are no packages of that type.
1124 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1125 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1126 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1127 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1129 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1130 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1134 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1137 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1138 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1142 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1145 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1146 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1148 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1149 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1150 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1151 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1152 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1153 planned but not yet implemented.)
1154 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1155 if the Makefile has such a target.
1156 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1157 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1158 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1159 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1160 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1161 but not yet implemented.)
1162 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1163 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1164 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1165 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1166 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1168 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1170 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1171 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1173 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1174 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1175 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1180 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1183 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1184 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1188 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1190 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1191 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1192 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1196 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1202 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1208 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1211 just those installed by the program.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1215 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1218 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1219 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1223 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1226 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1227 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1228 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1229 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1233 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1236 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1237 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1241 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1244 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1245 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1249 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1252 with policy. Closes: #461392
1253 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1254 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1255 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1256 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1257 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1261 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1264 Closes: #460340, #460351
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1268 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1271 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1272 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1273 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1274 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1278 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1281 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1282 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1283 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1284 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1285 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1286 package build directory won't work.
1287 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1288 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1289 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1290 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1291 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1292 mode. Closes: #459426
1293 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1298 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1301 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1305 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1309 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1310 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1311 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1312 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1313 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1314 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1318 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1321 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1322 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1323 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1324 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1328 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1331 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1332 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1333 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1334 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1335 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1339 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1342 debian/package.triggers files.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1346 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1349 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1353 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1356 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1357 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1358 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1359 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1364 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1367 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1371 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1374 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1375 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1377 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1382 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1386 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1387 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1388 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1392 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1399 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1406 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1409 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1411 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1412 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1413 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1415 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1416 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1417 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1421 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1424 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1425 * Update urls to web page.
1426 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1427 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1428 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1429 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1433 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1436 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1437 - typo in alternatives call
1438 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1440 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1441 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1445 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1448 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1453 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1459 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1465 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1468 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1470 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1471 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1472 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1473 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1474 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1475 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1476 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1477 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1478 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1479 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1480 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1484 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1487 package install. Closes: #415717
1488 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1489 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1490 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1491 script and then remove the python files.
1492 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1493 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1494 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1495 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1496 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1497 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1498 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1499 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1500 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1501 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1502 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1503 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1504 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1508 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Correct typo in french translation
1514 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1515 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1517 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1519 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1520 Closes: #406921, #381940
1521 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1523 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1524 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1525 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1526 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1527 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1528 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1529 specified). Closes: #381851
1530 * Misc minor changes.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1534 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1541 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1542 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1546 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1552 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1553 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1556 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1557 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1559 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1560 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1561 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1562 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1566 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1569 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1572 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1576 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1582 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1588 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1589 a difficult situation.
1590 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1591 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1592 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1593 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1594 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1595 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1596 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1597 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1598 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1599 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1603 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Non-maintainer upload.
1606 * Update of dh_python
1607 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1608 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1610 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1611 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1612 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1613 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1614 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1616 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1618 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Non-maintainer upload.
1621 * Update of dh_python
1622 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1623 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1624 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1625 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1626 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1627 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1628 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1629 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1630 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1631 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1633 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1634 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1635 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1636 the not too-distant future).
1637 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1638 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1639 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1640 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1641 thus made the build fail.
1643 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1645 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Non-maintainer upload.
1648 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1650 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1652 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1655 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1656 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1657 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1658 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1659 package. Closes: #301424
1660 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1661 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1662 fonts). Closes: #372686
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1666 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1672 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1673 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1674 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1675 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1676 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1677 above, but already depends on that.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1681 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1684 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1685 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1686 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1687 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1688 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1692 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1698 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1704 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1705 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1709 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1712 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1716 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1720 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1721 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1722 new version (0.24.1).
1723 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1724 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1727 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1728 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1729 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1730 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1731 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1732 new directory on their own.
1733 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1734 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1738 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1741 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1742 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1743 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1744 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1748 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1751 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1752 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1753 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1754 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1755 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1759 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1765 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1769 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1770 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1774 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1775 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1779 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1781 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1782 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1784 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1785 ignored. Closes: #337664
1787 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1792 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1798 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1803 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1804 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1805 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1806 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1807 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1808 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1809 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1813 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1816 version. Closes: #350607
1817 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1818 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1819 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1820 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1824 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1827 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1828 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1829 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1833 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1840 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1846 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1849 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1853 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1856 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1857 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1858 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1859 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1860 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1861 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1865 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1868 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1869 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1874 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1877 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1881 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1884 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1888 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1891 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1892 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1893 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1894 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1895 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1896 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1900 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1904 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1905 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1906 link. Closes: #346405
1907 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1909 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1910 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1911 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1912 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1913 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1914 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1915 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1919 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1926 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1932 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1935 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1939 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1942 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1947 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1951 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1952 installed. Closes: #342033
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1956 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1959 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1960 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1961 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1966 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1972 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1978 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1982 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1983 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1984 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1988 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1991 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1996 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2003 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2009 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2012 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2013 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2014 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2015 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2016 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2017 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2018 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2020 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2024 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2027 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2028 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2032 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2035 in standard man dirs.
2036 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2040 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2046 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2049 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2054 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2061 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2068 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2071 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2072 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2076 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2079 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2080 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2081 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2083 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2085 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2091 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2097 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2100 mode. Closes: #324161
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2107 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2108 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2109 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2110 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2115 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2118 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2119 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2120 is necesary for sanity.
2121 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2122 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2127 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2129 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2130 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2134 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2137 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2141 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2147 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2150 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2151 released, so use at your own risk.
2152 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2153 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2155 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2156 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2157 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2158 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2159 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2160 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2161 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2162 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2163 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2164 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2165 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2166 including twice per config file line now..
2167 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2168 and simplfy the rules file.
2169 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2170 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2171 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2173 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2174 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2178 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2181 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2185 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2188 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2192 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2195 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2199 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2202 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2203 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2204 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2205 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2206 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2207 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2211 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2214 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2215 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2216 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2221 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2224 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2225 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2230 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2233 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2234 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2235 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2240 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2243 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2244 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2245 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2249 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2255 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2262 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2265 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2266 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2267 unknown. Closes: #282924
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2271 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2278 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Spanish man page updates.
2281 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2286 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2292 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2295 * dh_desktop: reindent
2296 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2297 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2307 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2309 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2313 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2315 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2319 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2322 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2323 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2327 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2333 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2339 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2346 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2349 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2353 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2356 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2357 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2358 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2359 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2360 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2361 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2363 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2364 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2365 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2366 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2367 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2368 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2369 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2370 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2371 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2372 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2373 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2374 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2375 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2376 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2377 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2378 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2382 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2389 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2392 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2396 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2399 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2403 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2406 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2410 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2413 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2417 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2423 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2429 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2435 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2438 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2439 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2440 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2444 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2447 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2451 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2454 but occasionally right and necessary.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2458 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2461 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2462 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2463 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2464 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2465 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2469 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2472 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2474 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2475 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2476 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2477 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2478 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2479 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2480 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2481 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2482 postinst scripts for udebs.
2483 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2487 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2490 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2492 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2493 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2497 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2503 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2510 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2517 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2520 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2524 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2527 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2531 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2534 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2537 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2538 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2542 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2548 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2551 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2555 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2558 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2559 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2560 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2562 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2564 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2565 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2566 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2570 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2573 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2578 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2581 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2582 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2583 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2588 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2594 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2600 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2603 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2604 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2605 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2606 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2607 associated -dbg packages.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2611 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2614 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2618 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2621 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2625 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2628 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2632 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2635 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2640 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2643 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2647 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2650 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2658 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2662 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2666 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2667 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2668 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2669 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2670 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2671 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2672 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2673 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2674 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2675 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2679 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2682 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2687 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2690 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2691 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2695 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2698 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2699 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2704 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2707 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2711 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2714 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2718 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2721 out section number. Closes: #204731
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2725 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2732 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2738 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2744 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2747 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2748 removal. Closes: #204286
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2752 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2755 renaming. Closes: #203548
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2759 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2762 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2763 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2767 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2773 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2779 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2785 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2788 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2789 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2790 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2794 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2797 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2798 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2802 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2808 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2815 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2818 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2823 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2826 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2830 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2833 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2835 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2836 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2840 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2843 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2848 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2851 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2855 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2861 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2863 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2867 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2870 it break hard links (see #188663).
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2874 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2877 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2881 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2887 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2891 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2892 debconf-mergetemplates
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2896 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2899 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2903 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2906 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2910 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2913 * Update debhelper(1).
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2917 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2920 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2921 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2922 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2923 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2924 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2928 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2931 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2932 the shell. Closes: #178524
2933 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2937 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2940 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2944 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2947 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2951 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2954 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2955 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2956 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2957 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2962 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2965 files from installation.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2969 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2972 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2973 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2977 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2980 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2984 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2987 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2991 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2997 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3003 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3007 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3008 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3010 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3014 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3017 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3018 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3019 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3020 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3024 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3027 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3031 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3034 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3035 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3039 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3043 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3048 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3058 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3059 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3060 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3065 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3068 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3069 practice. Closes: #163303
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3073 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3079 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3086 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3089 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3091 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3092 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3093 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3094 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3095 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3099 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3102 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3107 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3113 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3120 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3123 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3128 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3134 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3140 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3146 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3153 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3156 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3157 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3158 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3159 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3164 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3170 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3177 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3180 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3181 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3185 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3188 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3189 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3190 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3191 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3192 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3196 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3199 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3201 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3206 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3209 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3213 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3216 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3217 right thing. Closes: #150644
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3221 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Stupid, evil typo.
3224 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3228 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3235 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3238 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3239 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3244 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3250 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3253 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3257 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3260 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3261 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3266 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3269 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3273 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3279 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3282 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3283 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3287 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3293 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * Removing perl warning message.
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3299 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3302 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3303 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3304 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3305 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3306 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3307 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3308 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3309 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3313 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3319 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3326 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3329 debconf-mergetemplate.
3330 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3331 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3335 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3338 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3339 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3340 dh_install, which ...
3341 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3342 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3343 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3344 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3345 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3346 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3347 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3348 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3349 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3350 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3351 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3352 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3353 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3354 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3355 other minor changes.
3356 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3357 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3358 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3359 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3360 course there's -X ..)
3361 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3362 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3363 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3365 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3366 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3367 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3368 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3369 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3374 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3380 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3383 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3387 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3393 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3399 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3405 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3411 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3414 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3415 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3416 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3417 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3419 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3420 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3424 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3430 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3433 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3437 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3440 upset. Closes: #131322
3442 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3444 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3447 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3448 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3449 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3450 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3451 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3452 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3453 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3454 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3455 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3456 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3457 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3458 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3459 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3460 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3461 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3463 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3467 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3470 - Better indenting of generated code.
3471 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3475 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3479 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3480 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3481 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3482 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3483 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3484 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3485 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3489 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3492 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3496 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3499 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3500 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3501 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3502 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3503 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3504 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3505 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3506 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3507 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3508 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3509 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3510 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3511 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3512 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3513 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3518 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3524 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3527 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3528 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3532 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3535 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3536 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3540 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3546 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3549 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3550 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3551 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3552 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3553 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3558 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3564 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3567 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3571 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3574 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3579 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3585 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3588 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3592 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3598 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3602 Also some indentation fixes.
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3606 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3609 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3610 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3611 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3612 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3613 Closes: #106514, #85520
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3617 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3623 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3629 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3635 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3641 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3647 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3650 change it in debhelper v4..
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3654 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3660 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3663 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3667 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3670 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3674 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3680 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3683 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3684 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3685 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3686 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3687 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3688 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3689 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3690 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3691 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3692 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3693 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3694 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3698 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3701 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3705 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3712 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3715 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3716 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3717 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3718 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3719 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3720 program those options go to. So, for example,
3721 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3722 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3723 something complex. Closes: #89311
3724 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3728 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3731 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3732 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3733 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3737 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3740 through loop. Closes: #98598
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3744 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Missing semi-colon.
3747 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3748 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3752 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3755 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3756 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3757 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3761 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3764 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3765 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3769 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3772 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3776 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3779 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3780 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3784 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3787 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3788 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3789 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3793 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3796 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3797 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3798 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3802 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3805 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3809 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3815 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3821 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3827 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3833 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3836 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3840 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3843 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3844 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3845 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3846 followed. Closes: #85483
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3850 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3852 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3853 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3854 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3858 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3861 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3862 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3863 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3864 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3865 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3866 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3867 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3868 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3869 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3870 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3871 Closes: #88464, #77743
3872 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3873 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3874 us to deal with that gracefully.
3875 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3877 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3878 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3879 a while, Closes: #51225
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3883 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3889 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3892 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3896 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3900 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3905 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3908 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3909 don't make packlist files.
3910 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3911 debhelper coding standards.
3912 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3913 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3917 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3920 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3924 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3927 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3928 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3929 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3930 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3931 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3932 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3933 but is mildly deprecated.
3934 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3935 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3936 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3937 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3938 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3939 switching to statoverrides..
3940 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3941 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3942 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3943 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3944 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3945 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3947 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3948 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3949 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3950 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3951 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3952 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3953 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3954 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3955 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3957 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3958 variable names, pod man pages).
3959 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3960 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3961 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3962 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3963 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3964 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3965 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3969 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3975 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3982 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3985 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3989 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3991 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3992 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3993 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3997 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3999 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4000 they were previously ignored.
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4004 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4006 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4007 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4011 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4013 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4014 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4015 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4019 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4021 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4025 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4027 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4028 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4032 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4034 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4035 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4036 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4037 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4038 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4039 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4040 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4041 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4042 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4043 it is an obsolete program.
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4047 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4049 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4053 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4057 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4059 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4063 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4065 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4067 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4069 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4073 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4079 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * typo: Closes, #78567
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4085 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4091 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4097 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4100 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4101 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4102 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4103 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4104 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4108 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4111 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4116 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4119 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4120 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4121 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4122 backwards-compatibility.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4126 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4129 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4130 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4131 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4132 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4133 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4134 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4136 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4137 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4138 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4140 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4142 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4143 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4144 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4145 should now be raised to severity important..
4146 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4147 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4151 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4154 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4159 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4165 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4171 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4173 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4177 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4184 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4187 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4188 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4189 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4190 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4194 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4200 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4203 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4204 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4205 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4206 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4207 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4208 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4213 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4216 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4220 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4226 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4229 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4234 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4237 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4238 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4239 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4240 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4244 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4248 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4251 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4254 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4255 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4258 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4260 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4261 the TODO entry about it.
4263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4265 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4267 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4272 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4275 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4276 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4280 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4283 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4284 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4285 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4286 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4290 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4296 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4306 (this appears to be logal).
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4310 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4313 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4314 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4315 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4316 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4320 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4326 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4329 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4330 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4331 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4332 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4336 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4342 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4345 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4349 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4356 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4359 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4360 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4361 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4366 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4373 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4379 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4382 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4383 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4384 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4385 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4386 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4387 notice until v2 is complete.
4388 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4389 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4390 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4391 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4392 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4393 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4395 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4396 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4397 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4398 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4402 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4408 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4415 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4418 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4422 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4429 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4432 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4433 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4434 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4435 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4440 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4443 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4444 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4445 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4450 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4453 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4454 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4458 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4461 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4465 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4468 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4472 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4479 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4482 depend on the build and install targets.
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4486 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4489 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4493 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4500 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4506 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4512 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4515 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4516 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4517 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4518 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4519 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4520 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4522 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4523 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4524 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4525 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4526 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4527 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4528 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4532 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4538 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4544 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4547 right place. Closes: #55065
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4551 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4558 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4561 * Copyright date updates.
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4565 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4568 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4573 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4579 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4586 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4592 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4598 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4604 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4607 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4608 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4609 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4610 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4611 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4612 bits until all files have been registered.
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4616 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * dh_installmanpages:
4619 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4620 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4621 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4622 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4623 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4624 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4625 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4626 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4627 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4628 otherwise change the result at all.
4630 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4631 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4632 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4633 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4634 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4639 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4645 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4648 act on files that don't exist.
4649 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4650 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4651 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4653 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4654 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4655 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4656 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4660 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4666 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4672 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4675 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4679 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4682 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4684 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4685 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4686 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4690 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4693 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4694 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4695 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4696 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4697 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4698 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4699 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4701 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4703 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4707 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4714 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4720 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4726 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4729 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4733 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4745 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4748 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4749 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4750 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4751 I made some changes, though:
4752 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4753 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4754 that is a clear violation of policy.
4755 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4756 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4757 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4758 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4759 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4760 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4761 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4762 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4763 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4765 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4775 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4778 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4782 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4785 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4786 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4791 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4797 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4804 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4807 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4808 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4809 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4810 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4811 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4812 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4813 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4817 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4823 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4827 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4828 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4832 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4838 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4841 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4845 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4848 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4849 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4853 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4855 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4860 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4864 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4868 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4871 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4872 for the dependancies to be generated.
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4876 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4879 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4883 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4886 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4887 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4888 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4893 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4896 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4897 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4901 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4907 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4913 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4916 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4920 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4926 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4929 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4930 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4931 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4932 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4933 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4934 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4935 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4936 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4937 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4938 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4939 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4940 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4944 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4947 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4948 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4950 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4951 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4952 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4953 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4954 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4955 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4957 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4958 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4962 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4965 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4969 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4976 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4979 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4984 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4987 for building debhelper.
4988 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4992 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4999 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5002 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5006 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5009 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5010 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5011 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5012 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5013 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5014 it's always available.
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5018 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5021 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5022 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5023 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5027 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5030 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5031 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5035 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5041 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5044 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5048 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5054 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5057 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5058 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5059 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5063 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5066 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5071 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5074 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5075 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5077 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5078 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5082 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5088 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5094 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5097 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5101 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5104 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5105 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5107 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5111 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5114 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5115 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5116 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5120 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5123 things if CDPATH is set.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5127 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5133 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5136 seems to make sense for the transition.
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5140 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5143 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5148 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5151 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5152 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5156 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5159 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5163 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5166 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5167 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5168 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5169 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5173 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5179 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5181 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5182 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5183 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5184 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5185 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5186 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5187 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5188 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5189 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5190 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5191 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5196 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5199 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5200 * README: mention doc/v2
5201 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5202 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5206 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5208 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5209 be using this script RSN.
5211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5213 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5215 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5216 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5217 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5218 more than 1 init script.
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5222 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5225 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5229 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * Changed perl version detection.
5232 * Changed call to find.
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5236 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5239 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5241 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5246 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * Really include dh_installpam.
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5252 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5255 * Wrote man page for same.
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5259 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5262 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5263 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5268 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5275 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5277 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5278 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5279 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5280 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5281 x bit was being set!
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5285 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5288 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5289 well. (Closes: 38900)
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5293 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5296 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5297 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5301 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5307 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5314 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5320 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5323 help from Julian Gilbey.
5324 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5325 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5326 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5327 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5328 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5329 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5330 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5335 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5341 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5348 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5354 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5360 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5363 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5367 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5370 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5374 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5377 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5381 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5387 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5390 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5394 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5400 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5406 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5409 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5410 may be deleted. (#35845)
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5414 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * Various man page enhancements.
5417 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5422 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5425 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5426 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5430 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5433 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5434 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5435 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5437 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5438 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5443 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5449 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * Another very minor typo fix.
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5455 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * Very minor typo fix.
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5461 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5464 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5465 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5469 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5475 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5478 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5479 variables properly (#34850).
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5483 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5489 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5492 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5493 (automatically generated by build process).
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5497 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5499 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5503 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5506 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5507 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5509 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5513 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5516 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5520 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * README: minor typo fix.
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5526 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5529 leave it at that. :-)
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5533 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5539 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5545 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5548 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5549 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5550 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5554 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5557 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5561 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5564 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5568 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5571 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5572 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5573 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5574 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5578 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5581 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5582 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5583 Craig Small for spotting this.
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5587 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5590 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5591 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5595 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5601 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5604 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5608 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5610 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5611 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5612 working on the last version of debhelper.
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5616 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5619 being made. (#23255)
5621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5623 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5625 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5629 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5632 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5636 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5639 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5640 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5641 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5642 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5646 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5649 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5650 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5651 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5652 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5654 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5655 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5657 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5662 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5668 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5670 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5674 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5677 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5678 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5679 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5680 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5681 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5682 suidregister actually supports it.
5683 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5684 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5688 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5690 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5695 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5698 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5699 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5700 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5701 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5702 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5703 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5704 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5708 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5710 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5711 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5715 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5717 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5718 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5719 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5720 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5721 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5725 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5728 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5730 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5731 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5732 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5733 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5734 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5735 effect, either. (#30118)
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5739 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5745 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5748 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5749 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5753 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5755 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5759 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5761 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5762 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5763 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5764 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5765 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5769 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5772 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5773 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5777 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5783 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5786 packages, painlessly.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5790 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5796 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5802 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5808 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5810 * The perl conversion is complete.
5812 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5814 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5815 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5816 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5821 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5823 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5824 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5825 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5826 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5830 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5833 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5835 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5837 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5838 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5842 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5844 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5845 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5846 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5850 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5856 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5859 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5860 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5861 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5862 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5863 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5867 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5870 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5871 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5872 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5873 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5877 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5880 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5884 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5887 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5888 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5889 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5890 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5891 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5892 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5893 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5894 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5898 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5904 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5907 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5908 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5909 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5914 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5917 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5921 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5924 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5928 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5930 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5931 sections of shared libraries.
5932 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5933 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5934 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5935 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5936 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5937 things you don't want them to.
5938 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5939 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5943 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5945 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5946 shared libraries. (#26414)
5948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5950 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5952 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5953 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5954 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5955 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5959 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5963 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5965 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5966 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5967 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5968 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5969 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5973 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5976 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5980 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5982 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5983 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5984 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5989 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5992 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5996 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5999 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6000 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6001 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6002 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6003 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6005 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6006 remove debian/files properly.
6007 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6008 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6009 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6010 * Removed bogus menu file.
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6014 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6017 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6021 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6024 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6025 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6026 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6027 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6028 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6029 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6033 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6036 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6037 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6038 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6039 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6043 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6045 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6050 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6053 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6054 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6056 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6057 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6058 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6059 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6060 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6061 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6065 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6067 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6068 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6069 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6070 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6071 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6072 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6073 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6074 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6075 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6076 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6077 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6078 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6079 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6080 passed any switches.
6081 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6085 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6087 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6088 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6089 at all for a long while.
6090 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6091 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6092 large chunks in the process.
6093 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6094 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6095 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6100 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6102 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6103 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6105 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6110 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6113 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6114 that don't always have the same files in them.
6115 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6116 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6117 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6121 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6123 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6125 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6126 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6127 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6128 updating 27 man pages.
6129 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6130 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6131 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6132 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6133 programs act on. (#25247)
6135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6137 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6141 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6142 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6143 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6144 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6145 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6146 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6151 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6153 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6158 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6160 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6165 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6167 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6168 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6172 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6174 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6178 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6181 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6182 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6183 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6184 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6185 package by accident.
6186 * Is version 1.0 next?
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6190 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6192 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6193 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6194 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6198 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6201 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6202 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6203 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6204 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6205 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6207 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6212 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6214 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6215 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6216 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6220 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6222 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6223 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6227 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6229 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6230 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6231 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6236 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6238 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6242 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6244 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6245 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6246 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6251 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6253 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6257 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6259 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6260 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6261 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6262 past week. Thanks, guys!
6264 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6265 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6266 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6267 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6268 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6269 would do in the same situation.
6270 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6271 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6273 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6275 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6276 permissions changed.
6277 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6278 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6279 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6280 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6281 files are treated identically.
6282 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6283 * Minor man page fixes.
6284 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6285 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6286 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6290 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6293 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6294 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6295 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6296 use -X multiple times, too.
6297 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6298 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6302 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6304 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6305 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6306 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6310 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6312 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6313 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6317 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6319 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6320 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6321 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6322 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6323 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6324 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6325 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6326 shape if you're starting a new package.
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6330 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6333 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6337 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6339 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6340 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6341 because of missing symlinks.
6343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6345 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6347 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6351 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6353 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6354 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6355 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6356 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6357 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6358 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6360 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6361 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6365 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6367 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6368 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6369 to be changed after the fact :-)
6370 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6374 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6376 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6377 no version string after the -V.
6379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6381 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6383 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6384 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6389 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6391 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6392 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6396 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6398 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6399 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6400 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6401 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6402 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6403 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6404 I always welcome corrections!
6406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6408 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6410 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6414 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6416 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6417 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6418 * Documented this new switch.
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6422 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6424 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6425 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6426 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6427 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6428 no packages use the old behavior.
6430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6432 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6434 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6435 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6436 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6440 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6442 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6443 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6447 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6453 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6455 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6456 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6460 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6462 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6463 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6464 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6465 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6469 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6471 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6475 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6477 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6478 into the source package by accident.
6480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6482 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6484 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6485 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6486 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6487 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6488 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6489 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6490 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6495 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6497 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6499 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6500 inspired to implement some of it.
6501 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6505 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6507 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6508 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6512 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6514 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6515 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6516 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6520 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6522 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6523 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6524 have done.) (#17598)
6526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6528 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6530 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6534 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6536 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6540 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6542 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6543 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6547 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6549 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6550 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6551 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6555 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6557 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6558 argument processor in perl.
6559 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6560 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6561 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6562 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6566 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6568 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6569 type directories. (#16933)
6570 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6571 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6572 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6573 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6574 are supported. (#16935)
6575 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6580 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6582 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6583 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6587 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6589 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6591 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6592 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6593 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6594 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6595 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6596 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6600 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6602 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6603 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6604 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6606 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6607 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6608 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6609 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6610 a given package, or -i or -a.
6611 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6612 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6613 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6614 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6615 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6616 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6617 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6618 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6619 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6621 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6622 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6623 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6627 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6630 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6631 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6636 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6638 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6639 does not have a section.
6641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6643 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6645 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6646 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6647 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6648 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6652 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6654 * Fixed typo #16215.
6656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6658 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6660 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6661 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6662 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6663 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6664 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6665 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6670 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6672 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6673 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6674 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6675 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6680 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6682 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6686 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6688 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6692 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6694 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6695 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6696 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6697 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6698 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6699 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6700 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6704 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6706 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6710 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6712 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6713 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6717 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6719 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6720 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6721 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6722 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6726 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6728 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6729 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6733 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6735 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6739 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6741 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6742 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6746 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6748 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6749 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6753 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6755 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6759 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6761 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6762 postinst, postrm, etc.
6764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6766 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6768 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6772 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6774 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6775 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6776 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6777 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6778 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6779 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6783 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6785 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6786 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6787 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6791 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6793 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6794 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6798 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6800 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6801 installing package files into.
6802 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6807 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6809 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6811 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6815 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6817 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6821 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6823 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6824 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6828 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6830 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6831 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6832 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6833 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6834 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6838 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6840 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6841 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6842 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6843 multiple binary packages.
6844 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6845 should rebuild them with this version.
6846 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6850 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6852 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6853 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6857 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6859 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6860 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6864 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6866 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6867 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6868 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6869 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6870 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6871 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6872 debian/README.debian.
6873 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6874 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6875 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6876 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6877 in a few situations.)
6879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6881 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6883 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6887 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6889 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6893 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6895 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6896 * Fixed several man pages.
6898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6900 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6902 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6903 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6904 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6908 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6910 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6911 is ready for general use.
6912 * Added man pages for all commands.
6913 * Multiple binary package support.
6914 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6915 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6916 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6918 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6919 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6920 auto-installed as parameters.
6921 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6923 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6926 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6927 the package build directory it is to act on.
6928 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6929 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6930 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6934 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6936 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6937 ready to replace debstd.
6939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400