1 debhelper (8.1.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
4 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
5 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
6 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
7 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
8 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
9 the targets. Closes: #629139
11 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
12 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
13 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
14 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
15 are already set to other values will not be changed.
17 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 May 2011 15:24:19 -0400
21 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
27 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
30 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
31 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
35 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
38 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
39 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
40 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
41 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
42 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
43 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
44 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
49 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
53 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
54 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
56 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
57 changes may be added to that mode.
58 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
59 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
60 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
61 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
62 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
63 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
64 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
65 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
66 * Removed old example rules files.
67 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
71 * update french translation.
72 * Fix french misspelling.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
76 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
78 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
79 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
83 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
86 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
88 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
89 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
90 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
91 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
92 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
96 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
99 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
100 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
101 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
102 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
103 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
104 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
106 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
107 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
108 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
109 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
110 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
111 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
112 (Thanks, David Prévot)
113 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
114 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
115 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
116 target fails. Closes: #601037
117 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
119 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
120 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
121 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
122 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
123 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
125 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
126 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
128 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
129 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
130 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
132 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
134 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
137 * update french translation.
138 * Fix french misspelling.
139 * French translation update after massive man page typography
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
143 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
149 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
153 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
155 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
159 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
161 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
162 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
163 introduced by the fix to #527990.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
167 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
170 changes are planned for that mode.
171 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
172 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
173 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
174 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
175 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
176 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
177 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
178 (genesis) still uses them.
179 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
180 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
181 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
182 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
183 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
184 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
185 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
186 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
187 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
188 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
189 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
190 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
191 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
192 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
193 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
194 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
195 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
196 commands. (See #570039)
197 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
199 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
204 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
208 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
209 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
210 in control file or debhelper config files.
211 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
215 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
218 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
219 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
223 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
226 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
230 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
233 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
234 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
238 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Updated French translation.
241 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
242 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
243 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
244 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
246 * Typo. Closes: #571968
247 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
248 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
249 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
250 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
251 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
252 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
253 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
254 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
255 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
257 * dh: Improve documentation.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
261 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
263 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
264 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
265 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
269 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
272 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
276 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
279 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
283 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
286 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
287 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
288 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
289 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
290 options that they do not support.
291 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
292 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
293 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
294 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
295 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
296 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
301 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
305 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
306 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
307 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
308 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
309 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
310 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
311 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
312 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
313 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
317 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
320 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
321 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
322 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
323 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
327 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Typo. Closes: #558654
330 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
331 installed. Closes: #558782
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
335 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
338 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
339 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
340 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
341 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
342 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
346 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
348 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
349 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
350 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
351 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
355 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
358 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
359 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
363 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
365 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
369 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
371 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
372 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
373 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
374 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
375 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
376 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
377 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
378 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
379 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
380 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
381 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
382 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
383 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
384 time soon.) Closes: #554509
385 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
387 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
388 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
389 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
390 document id. Closes: #555677
391 * Typo. Closes: #555659
392 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
393 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
394 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
395 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
397 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
398 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
399 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
404 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
407 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
408 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
409 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
410 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
411 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
412 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
413 translation (#494300 part 2)
416 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
418 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
419 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
420 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
421 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
422 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
426 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
429 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
430 (It was only run once due to logging.)
431 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
432 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
433 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
434 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
435 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
436 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
437 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
438 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
439 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
440 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
444 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
448 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
451 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
452 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
456 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
459 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
460 flag with arch all/any packages.
461 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
462 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
463 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
464 situation. Closes: #540794
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
468 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
472 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
473 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
474 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
475 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
476 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
479 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
480 the default. Closes: #538201
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
485 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
489 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
490 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
491 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
492 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
493 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
495 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
496 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
497 * Above Closes: #491117
498 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
503 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
509 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
510 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
511 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
515 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
518 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
519 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
520 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
521 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
522 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
527 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
530 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
531 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
535 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
537 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
541 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
543 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
544 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
546 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
547 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
548 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
552 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
554 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
555 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
559 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
565 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
567 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
568 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
569 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
574 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
576 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
580 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
583 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
584 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
585 created by using `python' first during build and install.
587 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
592 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
594 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
598 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
600 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
601 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
605 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
607 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
611 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
613 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
617 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
619 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
620 contributed by Modestas Vainius
621 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
622 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
623 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
624 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
625 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
626 that support it. Closes: #480577
627 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
628 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
629 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
631 - Adds support for cmake.
632 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
633 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
635 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
637 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
638 that use them. The options are:
639 --sourcedir, --destdir
640 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
641 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
642 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
643 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
644 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
648 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
654 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
657 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
658 default. Closes: #537140
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
662 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
665 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
666 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
670 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
673 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
677 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
680 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
684 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
687 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
689 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
690 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
691 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
695 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
698 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
699 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
700 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
704 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
707 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
708 warning or deprecation message.
709 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
710 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
711 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
712 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
713 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
714 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
715 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
716 Closes: #534639, #357434
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
720 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
726 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
729 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
730 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
731 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
732 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
734 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
735 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
736 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
740 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
746 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
753 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
756 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
760 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
762 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
764 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
765 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
767 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
768 file support. Closes: #494914
769 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
773 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
775 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
776 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
777 parameters. Closes: #527256
778 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
779 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
780 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
784 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
788 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
789 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
790 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
794 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
797 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
798 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
799 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
803 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
806 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
807 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
809 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
810 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
811 by triggers). Closes: #521181
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
815 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
819 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
823 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
826 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
827 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
828 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
829 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
834 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
840 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
843 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
844 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
845 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
846 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
847 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
849 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
850 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
851 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
852 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
853 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
854 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
858 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
861 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
862 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
863 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
864 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
865 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
867 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
871 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
873 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
877 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
879 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
880 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
881 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
882 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
883 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
884 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
885 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
886 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
887 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
888 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
889 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
893 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
895 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
896 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
898 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
899 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
900 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
901 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
903 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
904 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
908 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
910 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
911 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
912 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
913 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
914 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
915 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
916 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
918 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
919 that uses them. Affected options are:
920 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
921 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
922 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
923 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
924 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
925 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
926 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
927 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
928 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
929 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
930 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
931 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
935 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
942 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
948 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
950 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
951 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
953 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
954 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
955 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
956 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
957 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
959 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
961 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
962 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
963 rules (see bug #509756).
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
967 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
973 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
974 * Typo. Closes: #493062
975 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
976 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
980 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
983 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
984 empty files. Closes: #490937
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
988 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
994 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1001 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1004 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1005 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1006 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1007 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1012 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1014 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1015 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1016 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1017 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1021 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1024 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1025 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1026 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1027 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1028 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1032 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1039 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1042 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1043 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1044 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1045 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1046 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1047 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1048 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1049 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1050 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1054 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1057 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1058 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1059 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1060 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1062 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1063 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1064 breaking backwards compatibility.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1068 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1071 message in perl 5.10.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1075 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1081 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1084 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1088 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1091 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1095 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1098 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1099 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1100 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1101 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1102 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1103 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1104 logging by dh_listpackages.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1108 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1111 run and there are no packages of that type.
1112 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1113 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1114 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1115 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1117 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1118 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1122 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1125 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1126 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1130 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1133 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1134 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1136 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1137 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1138 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1139 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1140 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1141 planned but not yet implemented.)
1142 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1143 if the Makefile has such a target.
1144 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1145 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1146 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1147 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1148 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1149 but not yet implemented.)
1150 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1151 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1152 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1153 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1154 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1156 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1158 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1159 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1161 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1162 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1163 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1168 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1171 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1172 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1176 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1178 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1179 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1180 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1184 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1190 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1196 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1199 just those installed by the program.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1203 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1206 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1207 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1211 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1214 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1215 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1216 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1217 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1221 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1224 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1225 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1229 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1232 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1233 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1237 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1240 with policy. Closes: #461392
1241 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1242 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1243 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1244 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1245 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1249 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1252 Closes: #460340, #460351
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1256 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1259 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1260 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1261 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1262 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1266 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1269 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1270 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1271 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1272 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1273 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1274 package build directory won't work.
1275 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1276 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1277 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1278 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1279 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1280 mode. Closes: #459426
1281 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1286 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1289 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1293 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1297 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1298 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1299 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1300 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1301 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1302 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1306 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1309 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1310 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1311 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1312 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1316 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1319 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1320 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1321 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1322 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1323 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1327 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1330 debian/package.triggers files.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1334 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1337 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1341 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1344 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1345 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1346 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1347 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1352 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1355 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1359 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1362 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1363 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1365 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1370 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1374 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1375 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1376 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1380 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1387 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1394 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1397 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1399 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1400 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1401 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1403 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1404 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1405 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1409 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1412 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1413 * Update urls to web page.
1414 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1415 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1416 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1417 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1421 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1424 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1425 - typo in alternatives call
1426 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1428 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1429 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1433 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1436 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1441 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1447 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1453 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1456 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1458 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1459 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1460 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1461 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1462 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1463 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1464 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1465 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1466 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1467 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1468 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1472 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1475 package install. Closes: #415717
1476 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1477 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1478 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1479 script and then remove the python files.
1480 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1481 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1482 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1483 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1484 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1485 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1486 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1487 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1488 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1489 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1490 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1491 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1492 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1496 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Correct typo in french translation
1502 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1503 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1505 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1507 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1508 Closes: #406921, #381940
1509 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1511 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1512 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1513 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1514 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1515 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1516 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1517 specified). Closes: #381851
1518 * Misc minor changes.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1522 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1529 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1530 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1534 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1540 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1541 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1544 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1545 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1547 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1548 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1549 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1550 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1554 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1557 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1560 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1564 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1570 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1576 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1577 a difficult situation.
1578 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1579 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1580 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1581 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1582 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1583 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1584 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1585 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1586 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1587 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1591 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Non-maintainer upload.
1594 * Update of dh_python
1595 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1596 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1598 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1599 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1600 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1601 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1602 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1604 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1606 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Non-maintainer upload.
1609 * Update of dh_python
1610 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1611 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1612 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1613 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1614 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1615 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1616 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1617 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1618 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1619 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1621 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1622 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1623 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1624 the not too-distant future).
1625 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1626 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1627 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1628 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1629 thus made the build fail.
1631 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1633 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Non-maintainer upload.
1636 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1638 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1640 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1643 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1644 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1645 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1646 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1647 package. Closes: #301424
1648 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1649 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1650 fonts). Closes: #372686
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1654 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1660 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1661 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1662 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1663 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1664 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1665 above, but already depends on that.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1669 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1672 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1673 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1674 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1675 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1676 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1680 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1686 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1692 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1693 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1697 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1700 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1704 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1708 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1709 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1710 new version (0.24.1).
1711 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1712 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1715 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1716 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1717 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1718 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1719 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1720 new directory on their own.
1721 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1722 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1726 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1729 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1730 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1731 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1732 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1736 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1739 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1740 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1741 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1742 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1743 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1747 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1753 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1757 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1758 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1762 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1763 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1767 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1769 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1770 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1772 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1773 ignored. Closes: #337664
1775 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1780 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1786 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1791 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1792 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1793 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1794 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1795 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1796 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1797 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1801 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1804 version. Closes: #350607
1805 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1806 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1807 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1808 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1812 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1815 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1816 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1817 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1821 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1828 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1834 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1837 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1841 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1844 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1845 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1846 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1847 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1848 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1849 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1853 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1856 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1857 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1862 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1865 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1869 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1872 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1876 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1879 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1880 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1881 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1882 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1883 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1884 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1888 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1892 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1893 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1894 link. Closes: #346405
1895 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1897 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1898 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1899 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1900 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1901 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1902 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1903 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1907 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1914 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1920 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1923 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1927 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1930 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1935 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1939 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1940 installed. Closes: #342033
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1944 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1947 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1948 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1949 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1954 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1960 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1966 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1970 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1971 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1972 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1976 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1979 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1984 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1991 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1997 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2000 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2001 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2002 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2003 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2004 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2005 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2006 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2008 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2012 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2015 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2016 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2023 in standard man dirs.
2024 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2028 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2034 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2037 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2042 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2049 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2056 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2059 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2060 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2064 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2067 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2068 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2069 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2071 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2073 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2085 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2088 mode. Closes: #324161
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2092 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2095 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2096 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2097 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2098 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2103 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2106 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2107 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2108 is necesary for sanity.
2109 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2110 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2115 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2117 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2118 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2122 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2125 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2129 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2138 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2139 released, so use at your own risk.
2140 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2141 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2143 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2144 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2145 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2146 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2147 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2148 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2149 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2150 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2151 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2152 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2153 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2154 including twice per config file line now..
2155 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2156 and simplfy the rules file.
2157 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2158 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2159 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2161 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2162 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2166 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2169 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2173 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2176 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2180 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2183 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2187 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2190 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2191 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2192 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2193 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2194 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2195 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2199 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2202 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2203 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2204 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2209 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2212 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2213 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2218 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2221 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2222 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2223 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2228 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2231 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2232 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2233 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2237 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2243 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2250 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2253 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2254 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2255 unknown. Closes: #282924
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2259 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2266 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Spanish man page updates.
2269 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2274 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2280 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2283 * dh_desktop: reindent
2284 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2285 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2289 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2295 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2297 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2303 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2307 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2310 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2311 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2315 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2321 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2327 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2337 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2344 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2345 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2346 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2347 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2348 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2349 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2351 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2352 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2353 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2354 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2355 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2356 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2357 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2358 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2359 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2360 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2361 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2362 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2363 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2364 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2365 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2366 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2370 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2377 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2380 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2384 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2387 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2394 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2401 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2405 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2411 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2417 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2423 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2426 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2427 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2428 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2432 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2435 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2439 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2442 but occasionally right and necessary.
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2446 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2449 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2450 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2451 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2452 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2453 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2457 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2460 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2462 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2463 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2464 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2465 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2466 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2467 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2468 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2469 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2470 postinst scripts for udebs.
2471 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2475 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2478 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2480 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2481 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2485 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2491 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2498 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2505 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2508 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2512 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2515 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2519 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2522 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2525 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2526 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2530 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2536 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2539 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2543 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2546 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2547 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2548 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2550 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2552 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2553 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2554 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2558 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2561 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2566 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2569 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2570 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2571 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2576 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2582 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2588 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2591 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2592 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2593 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2594 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2595 associated -dbg packages.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2599 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2602 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2606 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2609 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2613 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2616 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2620 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2623 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2628 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2631 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2638 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2643 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2646 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2650 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2654 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2655 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2656 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2657 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2658 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2659 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2660 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2661 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2662 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2663 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2667 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2670 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2675 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2678 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2679 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2683 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2686 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2687 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2692 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2695 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2699 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2702 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2706 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2709 out section number. Closes: #204731
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2713 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2720 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2726 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2732 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2735 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2736 removal. Closes: #204286
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2740 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2743 renaming. Closes: #203548
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2747 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2750 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2751 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2755 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2761 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2767 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2773 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2776 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2777 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2778 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2782 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2785 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2786 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2790 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2796 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2803 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2806 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2811 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2814 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2818 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2821 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2823 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2824 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2828 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2831 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2836 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2839 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2843 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2849 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2851 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2855 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2858 it break hard links (see #188663).
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2862 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2865 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2869 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2875 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2879 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2880 debconf-mergetemplates
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2884 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2887 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2891 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2894 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2898 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2901 * Update debhelper(1).
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2905 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2908 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2909 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2910 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2911 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2912 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2916 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2919 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2920 the shell. Closes: #178524
2921 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2925 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2928 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2932 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2935 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2939 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2942 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2943 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2944 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2945 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2950 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2953 files from installation.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2957 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2960 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2961 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2965 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2968 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2972 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2975 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2979 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2985 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2991 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2995 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2996 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2998 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3002 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3005 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3006 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3007 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3008 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3012 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3015 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3019 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3022 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3023 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3027 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3031 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3036 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3042 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3046 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3047 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3048 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3053 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3056 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3057 practice. Closes: #163303
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3061 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3067 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3074 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3077 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3079 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3080 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3081 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3082 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3083 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3087 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3090 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3095 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3101 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3108 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3111 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3116 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3122 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3128 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3134 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3141 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3144 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3145 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3146 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3147 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3152 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3158 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3165 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3168 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3169 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3173 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3176 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3177 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3178 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3179 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3180 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3184 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3187 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3189 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3194 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3197 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3201 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3204 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3205 right thing. Closes: #150644
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3209 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Stupid, evil typo.
3212 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3216 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3223 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3226 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3227 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3232 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3238 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3241 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3245 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3248 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3249 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3254 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3257 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3261 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3267 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3270 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3271 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3275 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3281 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Removing perl warning message.
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3287 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3290 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3291 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3292 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3293 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3294 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3295 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3296 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3297 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3301 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3307 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3314 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3317 debconf-mergetemplate.
3318 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3319 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3323 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3326 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3327 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3328 dh_install, which ...
3329 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3330 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3331 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3332 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3333 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3334 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3335 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3336 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3337 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3338 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3339 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3340 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3341 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3342 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3343 other minor changes.
3344 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3345 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3346 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3347 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3348 course there's -X ..)
3349 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3350 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3351 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3353 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3354 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3355 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3356 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3357 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3362 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3368 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3371 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3375 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3381 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3387 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3393 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3399 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3402 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3403 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3404 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3405 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3407 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3408 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3412 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3418 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3421 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3425 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3428 upset. Closes: #131322
3430 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3432 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3435 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3436 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3437 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3438 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3439 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3440 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3441 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3442 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3443 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3444 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3445 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3446 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3447 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3448 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3449 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3451 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3455 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3458 - Better indenting of generated code.
3459 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3463 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3467 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3468 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3469 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3470 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3471 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3472 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3473 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3477 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3480 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3484 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3487 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3488 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3489 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3490 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3491 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3492 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3493 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3494 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3495 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3496 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3497 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3498 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3499 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3500 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3501 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3506 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3512 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3515 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3516 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3520 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3523 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3524 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3528 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3534 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3537 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3538 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3539 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3540 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3541 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3546 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3552 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3555 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3559 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3562 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3567 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3573 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3576 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3580 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3586 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3590 Also some indentation fixes.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3594 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3597 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3598 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3599 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3600 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3601 Closes: #106514, #85520
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3605 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3611 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3617 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3623 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3629 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3635 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3638 change it in debhelper v4..
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3642 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3648 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3651 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3655 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3658 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3662 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3668 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3671 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3672 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3673 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3674 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3675 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3676 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3677 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3678 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3679 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3680 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3681 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3682 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3686 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3689 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3693 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3700 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3703 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3704 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3705 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3706 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3707 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3708 program those options go to. So, for example,
3709 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3710 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3711 something complex. Closes: #89311
3712 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3716 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3719 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3720 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3721 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3725 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3728 through loop. Closes: #98598
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3732 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * Missing semi-colon.
3735 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3736 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3740 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3743 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3744 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3745 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3749 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3752 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3753 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3757 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3760 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3764 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3767 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3768 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3772 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3775 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3776 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3777 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3781 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3784 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3785 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3786 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3790 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3793 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3797 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3803 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3809 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3815 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3821 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3824 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3828 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3831 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3832 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3833 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3834 followed. Closes: #85483
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3838 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3840 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3841 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3842 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3846 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3849 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3850 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3851 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3852 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3853 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3854 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3855 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3856 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3857 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3858 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3859 Closes: #88464, #77743
3860 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3861 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3862 us to deal with that gracefully.
3863 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3865 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3866 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3867 a while, Closes: #51225
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3871 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3877 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3880 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3884 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3888 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3893 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3896 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3897 don't make packlist files.
3898 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3899 debhelper coding standards.
3900 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3901 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3905 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3908 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3912 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3915 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3916 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3917 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3918 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3919 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3920 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3921 but is mildly deprecated.
3922 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3923 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3924 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3925 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3926 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3927 switching to statoverrides..
3928 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3929 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3930 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3931 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3932 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3933 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3935 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3936 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3937 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3938 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3939 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3940 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3941 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3942 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3943 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3945 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3946 variable names, pod man pages).
3947 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3948 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3949 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3950 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3951 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3952 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3953 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3957 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3963 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3970 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3973 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3977 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3979 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3980 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3981 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3985 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3987 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3988 they were previously ignored.
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3992 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3994 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3995 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3999 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4001 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4002 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4003 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4007 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4009 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4013 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4015 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4016 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4020 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4022 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4023 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4024 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4025 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4026 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4027 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4028 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4029 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4030 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4031 it is an obsolete program.
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4035 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4037 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4041 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4045 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4047 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4051 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4053 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4055 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4057 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4061 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4067 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * typo: Closes, #78567
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4073 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4079 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4085 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4088 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4089 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4090 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4091 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4092 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4096 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4099 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4104 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4107 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4108 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4109 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4110 backwards-compatibility.
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4114 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4117 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4118 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4119 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4120 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4121 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4122 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4124 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4125 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4126 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4128 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4130 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4131 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4132 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4133 should now be raised to severity important..
4134 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4135 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4139 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4142 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4147 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4153 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4159 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4165 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4172 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4175 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4176 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4177 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4178 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4182 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4188 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4191 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4192 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4193 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4194 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4195 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4196 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4201 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4204 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4208 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4214 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4216 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4217 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4222 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4225 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4226 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4227 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4228 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4236 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4239 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4242 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4243 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4246 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4248 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4249 the TODO entry about it.
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4253 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4260 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4263 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4264 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4268 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4271 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4272 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4273 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4274 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4278 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4284 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4291 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4294 (this appears to be logal).
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4298 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4301 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4302 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4303 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4304 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4308 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4314 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4317 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4318 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4319 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4320 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4324 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4330 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4333 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4344 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4347 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4348 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4349 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4361 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4370 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4371 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4372 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4373 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4374 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4375 notice until v2 is complete.
4376 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4377 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4378 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4379 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4380 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4381 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4383 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4384 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4385 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4386 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4390 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4396 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4403 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4406 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4410 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4417 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4420 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4421 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4422 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4423 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4428 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4431 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4432 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4433 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4438 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4441 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4442 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4446 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4449 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4453 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4456 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4460 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4467 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4470 depend on the build and install targets.
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4474 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4477 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4481 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4488 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4494 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4500 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4503 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4504 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4505 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4506 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4507 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4508 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4510 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4511 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4512 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4513 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4514 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4515 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4516 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4520 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4526 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4532 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4535 right place. Closes: #55065
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4539 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4546 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4549 * Copyright date updates.
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4553 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4556 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4561 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4567 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4574 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4580 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4586 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4592 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4595 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4596 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4597 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4598 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4599 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4600 bits until all files have been registered.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4604 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_installmanpages:
4607 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4608 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4609 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4610 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4611 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4612 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4613 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4614 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4615 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4616 otherwise change the result at all.
4618 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4619 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4620 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4621 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4622 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4627 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4633 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4636 act on files that don't exist.
4637 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4638 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4639 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4641 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4642 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4643 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4644 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4648 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4650 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4654 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4660 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4663 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4667 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4670 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4672 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4673 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4674 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4678 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4681 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4682 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4683 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4684 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4685 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4686 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4687 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4689 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4691 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4695 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4702 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4708 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4714 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4717 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4721 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4727 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4733 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4736 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4737 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4738 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4739 I made some changes, though:
4740 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4741 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4742 that is a clear violation of policy.
4743 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4744 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4745 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4746 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4747 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4748 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4749 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4750 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4751 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4753 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4757 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4763 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4766 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4770 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4773 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4774 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4779 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4785 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4792 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4795 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4796 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4797 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4798 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4799 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4800 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4801 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4805 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4811 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4815 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4816 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4820 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4826 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4829 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4833 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4835 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4836 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4837 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4841 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4843 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4848 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4852 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4856 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4859 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4860 for the dependancies to be generated.
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4864 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4867 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4871 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4874 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4875 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4876 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4881 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4883 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4884 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4885 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4889 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4895 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4901 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4904 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4908 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4914 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4917 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4918 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4919 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4920 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4921 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4922 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4923 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4924 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4925 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4926 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4927 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4928 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4932 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4935 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4936 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4938 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4939 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4940 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4941 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4942 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4943 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4945 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4946 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4950 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4953 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4957 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4964 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4967 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4972 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4975 for building debhelper.
4976 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4980 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4987 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4990 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4994 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4997 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4998 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4999 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5000 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5001 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5002 it's always available.
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5006 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5009 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5010 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5011 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5015 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5018 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5019 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5023 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5029 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5032 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5036 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5042 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5045 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5046 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5047 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5051 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5054 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5059 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5062 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5063 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5065 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5066 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5070 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5076 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5082 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5085 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5089 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5092 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5093 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5095 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5099 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5102 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5103 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5104 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5108 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5111 things if CDPATH is set.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5115 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5121 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5124 seems to make sense for the transition.
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5128 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5131 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5136 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5139 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5140 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5144 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5147 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5151 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5154 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5155 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5156 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5157 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5161 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5167 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5170 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5171 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5172 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5173 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5174 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5175 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5176 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5177 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5178 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5179 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5184 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5187 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5188 * README: mention doc/v2
5189 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5190 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5194 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5196 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5197 be using this script RSN.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5201 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5204 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5205 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5206 more than 1 init script.
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5210 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5213 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5217 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * Changed perl version detection.
5220 * Changed call to find.
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5224 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5227 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5229 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5234 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * Really include dh_installpam.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5240 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5243 * Wrote man page for same.
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5247 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5250 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5251 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5256 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5263 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5266 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5267 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5268 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5269 x bit was being set!
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5273 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5276 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5277 well. (Closes: 38900)
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5281 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5284 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5285 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5289 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5295 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5302 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5308 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5311 help from Julian Gilbey.
5312 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5313 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5314 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5315 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5316 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5317 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5318 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5323 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5329 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5336 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5342 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5348 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5351 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5355 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5358 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5362 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5365 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5369 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5375 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5378 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5382 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5388 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5394 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5397 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5398 may be deleted. (#35845)
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5402 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5404 * Various man page enhancements.
5405 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5410 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5413 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5414 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5418 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5421 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5422 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5423 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5425 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5426 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5431 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5437 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * Another very minor typo fix.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5443 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * Very minor typo fix.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5449 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5452 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5453 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5457 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5463 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5466 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5467 variables properly (#34850).
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5471 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5477 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5480 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5481 (automatically generated by build process).
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5485 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5487 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5491 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5494 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5495 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5497 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5501 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5504 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5508 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5510 * README: minor typo fix.
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5514 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5517 leave it at that. :-)
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5521 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5523 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5527 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5533 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5536 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5537 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5538 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5542 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5545 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5549 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5552 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5556 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5559 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5560 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5561 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5562 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5566 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5569 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5570 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5571 Craig Small for spotting this.
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5575 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5578 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5579 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5583 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5589 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5592 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5596 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5598 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5599 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5600 working on the last version of debhelper.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5604 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5607 being made. (#23255)
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5611 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5617 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5620 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5624 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5627 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5628 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5629 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5630 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5634 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5637 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5638 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5639 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5640 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5642 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5643 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5645 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5650 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5656 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5662 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5665 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5666 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5667 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5668 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5669 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5670 suidregister actually supports it.
5671 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5672 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5676 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5683 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5686 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5687 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5688 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5689 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5690 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5691 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5692 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5696 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5698 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5699 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5703 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5706 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5707 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5708 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5709 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5713 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5716 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5718 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5719 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5720 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5721 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5722 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5723 effect, either. (#30118)
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5727 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5733 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5736 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5737 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5741 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5747 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5749 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5750 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5751 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5752 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5753 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5757 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5760 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5761 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5765 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5771 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5774 packages, painlessly.
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5778 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5784 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5790 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5796 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * The perl conversion is complete.
5800 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5802 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5803 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5804 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5809 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5812 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5813 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5814 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5818 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5821 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5823 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5825 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5826 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5830 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5833 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5834 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5838 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5844 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5847 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5848 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5849 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5850 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5851 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5855 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5858 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5859 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5860 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5861 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5865 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5868 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5872 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5875 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5876 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5877 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5878 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5879 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5880 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5881 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5882 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5886 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5888 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5892 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5895 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5896 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5897 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5902 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5905 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5909 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5911 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5912 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5916 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5918 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5919 sections of shared libraries.
5920 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5921 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5922 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5923 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5924 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5925 things you don't want them to.
5926 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5927 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5931 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5933 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5934 shared libraries. (#26414)
5936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5938 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5940 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5941 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5942 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5943 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5947 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5951 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5953 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5954 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5955 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5956 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5957 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5961 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5964 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5968 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5971 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5972 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5977 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5980 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5984 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5987 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5988 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5989 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5990 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5991 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5993 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5994 remove debian/files properly.
5995 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5996 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5997 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5998 * Removed bogus menu file.
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6002 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6005 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6009 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6012 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6013 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6014 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6015 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6016 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6017 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6021 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6024 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6025 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6026 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6027 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6031 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6038 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6040 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6041 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6042 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6044 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6045 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6046 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6047 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6048 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6049 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6053 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6056 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6057 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6058 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6059 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6060 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6061 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6062 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6063 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6064 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6065 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6066 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6067 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6068 passed any switches.
6069 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6073 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6076 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6077 at all for a long while.
6078 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6079 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6080 large chunks in the process.
6081 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6082 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6083 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6088 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6091 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6093 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6098 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6101 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6102 that don't always have the same files in them.
6103 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6104 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6105 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6109 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6111 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6113 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6114 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6115 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6116 updating 27 man pages.
6117 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6118 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6119 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6120 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6121 programs act on. (#25247)
6123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6125 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6129 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6130 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6131 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6132 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6133 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6134 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6139 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6141 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6146 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6153 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6155 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6156 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6160 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6162 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6166 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6169 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6170 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6171 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6172 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6173 package by accident.
6174 * Is version 1.0 next?
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6178 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6181 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6182 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6186 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6189 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6190 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6191 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6192 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6193 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6195 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6200 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6202 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6203 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6204 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6208 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6210 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6211 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6215 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6217 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6218 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6219 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6224 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6226 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6230 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6232 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6233 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6234 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6239 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6241 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6245 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6247 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6248 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6249 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6250 past week. Thanks, guys!
6252 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6253 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6254 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6255 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6256 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6257 would do in the same situation.
6258 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6259 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6261 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6263 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6264 permissions changed.
6265 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6266 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6267 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6268 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6269 files are treated identically.
6270 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6271 * Minor man page fixes.
6272 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6273 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6274 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6278 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6280 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6281 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6282 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6283 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6284 use -X multiple times, too.
6285 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6286 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6290 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6293 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6294 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6298 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6300 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6301 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6305 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6307 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6308 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6309 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6310 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6311 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6312 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6313 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6314 shape if you're starting a new package.
6316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6318 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6320 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6321 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6325 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6327 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6328 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6329 because of missing symlinks.
6331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6333 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6335 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6339 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6341 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6342 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6343 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6344 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6345 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6346 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6348 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6349 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6353 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6355 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6356 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6357 to be changed after the fact :-)
6358 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6362 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6364 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6365 no version string after the -V.
6367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6369 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6371 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6372 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6377 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6379 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6380 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6384 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6386 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6387 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6388 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6389 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6390 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6391 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6392 I always welcome corrections!
6394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6396 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6398 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6402 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6404 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6405 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6406 * Documented this new switch.
6408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6410 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6412 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6413 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6414 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6415 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6416 no packages use the old behavior.
6418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6420 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6422 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6423 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6424 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6428 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6430 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6431 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6435 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6437 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6441 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6443 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6444 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6448 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6450 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6451 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6452 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6453 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6457 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6459 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6463 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6465 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6466 into the source package by accident.
6468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6470 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6472 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6473 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6474 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6475 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6476 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6477 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6478 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6483 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6485 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6487 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6488 inspired to implement some of it.
6489 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6493 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6495 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6496 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6500 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6502 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6503 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6504 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6508 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6510 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6511 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6512 have done.) (#17598)
6514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6516 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6518 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6522 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6524 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6528 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6530 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6531 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6535 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6537 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6538 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6539 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6543 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6545 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6546 argument processor in perl.
6547 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6548 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6549 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6550 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6554 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6556 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6557 type directories. (#16933)
6558 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6559 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6560 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6561 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6562 are supported. (#16935)
6563 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6568 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6571 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6575 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6577 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6579 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6580 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6581 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6582 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6583 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6584 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6588 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6590 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6591 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6592 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6594 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6595 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6596 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6597 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6598 a given package, or -i or -a.
6599 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6600 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6601 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6602 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6603 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6604 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6605 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6606 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6607 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6609 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6610 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6611 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6615 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6617 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6618 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6619 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6624 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6626 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6627 does not have a section.
6629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6631 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6633 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6634 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6635 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6636 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6640 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6642 * Fixed typo #16215.
6644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6646 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6648 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6649 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6650 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6651 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6652 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6653 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6658 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6660 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6661 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6662 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6663 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6668 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6670 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6674 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6676 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6680 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6682 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6683 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6684 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6685 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6686 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6687 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6688 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6692 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6694 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6698 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6700 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6701 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6705 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6707 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6708 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6709 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6710 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6714 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6716 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6717 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6721 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6723 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6727 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6729 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6730 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6734 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6736 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6737 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6741 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6743 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6747 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6749 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6750 postinst, postrm, etc.
6752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6754 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6756 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6760 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6762 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6763 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6764 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6765 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6766 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6767 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6771 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6773 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6774 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6775 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6779 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6781 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6782 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6786 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6788 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6789 installing package files into.
6790 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6795 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6797 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6799 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6803 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6805 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6809 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6811 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6812 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6816 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6818 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6819 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6820 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6821 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6822 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6826 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6828 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6829 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6830 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6831 multiple binary packages.
6832 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6833 should rebuild them with this version.
6834 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6838 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6840 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6841 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6845 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6847 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6848 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6852 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6854 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6855 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6856 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6857 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6858 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6859 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6860 debian/README.debian.
6861 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6862 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6863 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6864 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6865 in a few situations.)
6867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6869 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6871 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6875 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6877 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6881 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6883 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6884 * Fixed several man pages.
6886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6888 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6890 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6891 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6892 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6896 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6898 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6899 is ready for general use.
6900 * Added man pages for all commands.
6901 * Multiple binary package support.
6902 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6903 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6904 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6906 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6907 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6908 auto-installed as parameters.
6909 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6911 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6914 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6915 the package build directory it is to act on.
6916 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6917 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6918 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6922 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6924 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6925 ready to replace debstd.
6927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400