1 debhelper (8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
4 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
5 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
6 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
7 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
11 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
14 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
17 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
21 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
23 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
27 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
29 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
30 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
31 introduced by the fix to #527990.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
35 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
38 changes are planned for that mode.
39 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
40 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
41 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
42 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
43 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
44 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
45 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
46 (genesis) still uses them.
47 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
48 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
49 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
50 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
51 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
52 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
53 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
54 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
55 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
56 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
57 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
58 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
59 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
60 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
61 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
62 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
63 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
64 commands. (See #570039)
65 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
67 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
72 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
76 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
77 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
78 in control file or debhelper config files.
79 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
83 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
85 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
86 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
87 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
91 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
94 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
98 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
101 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
102 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
106 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Updated French translation.
109 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
110 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
111 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
112 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
114 * Typo. Closes: #571968
115 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
116 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
117 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
118 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
119 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
120 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
121 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
122 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
123 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
125 * dh: Improve documentation.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
129 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
131 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
132 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
133 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
137 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
140 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
144 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
147 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
151 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
153 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
154 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
155 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
156 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
157 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
158 options that they do not support.
159 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
160 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
161 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
162 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
163 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
164 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
169 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
173 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
174 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
175 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
176 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
177 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
178 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
179 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
180 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
181 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
185 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
188 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
189 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
190 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
191 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
195 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Typo. Closes: #558654
198 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
199 installed. Closes: #558782
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
203 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
206 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
207 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
208 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
209 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
210 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
214 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
216 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
217 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
218 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
219 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
223 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
226 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
227 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
231 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
233 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
237 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
239 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
240 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
241 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
242 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
243 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
244 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
245 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
246 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
247 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
248 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
249 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
250 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
251 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
252 time soon.) Closes: #554509
253 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
255 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
256 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
257 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
258 document id. Closes: #555677
259 * Typo. Closes: #555659
260 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
261 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
262 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
263 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
265 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
266 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
267 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
272 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
275 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
276 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
277 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
278 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
279 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
280 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
281 translation (#494300 part 2)
284 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
286 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
287 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
288 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
289 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
290 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
294 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
297 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
298 (It was only run once due to logging.)
299 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
300 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
301 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
302 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
303 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
304 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
305 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
306 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
307 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
308 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
312 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
316 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
319 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
320 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
324 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
327 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
328 flag with arch all/any packages.
329 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
330 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
331 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
332 situation. Closes: #540794
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
336 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
340 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
341 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
342 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
343 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
344 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
347 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
348 the default. Closes: #538201
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
353 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
355 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
357 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
358 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
359 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
360 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
361 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
363 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
364 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
365 * Above Closes: #491117
366 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
371 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
377 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
378 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
379 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
383 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
386 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
387 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
388 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
389 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
390 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
395 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
398 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
399 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
403 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
405 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
409 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
411 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
412 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
414 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
415 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
416 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
420 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
422 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
423 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
427 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
433 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
435 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
436 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
437 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
442 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
444 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
448 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
451 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
452 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
453 created by using `python' first during build and install.
455 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
460 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
462 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
466 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
468 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
469 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
473 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
475 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
479 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
481 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
485 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
487 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
488 contributed by Modestas Vainius
489 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
490 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
491 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
492 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
493 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
494 that support it. Closes: #480577
495 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
496 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
497 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
499 - Adds support for cmake.
500 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
501 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
503 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
505 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
506 that use them. The options are:
507 --sourcedir, --destdir
508 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
509 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
510 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
511 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
512 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
516 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
522 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
525 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
526 default. Closes: #537140
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
530 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
533 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
534 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
538 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
540 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
541 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
545 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
548 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
552 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
555 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
557 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
558 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
559 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
563 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
566 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
567 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
568 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
572 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
575 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
576 warning or deprecation message.
577 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
578 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
579 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
580 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
581 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
582 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
583 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
584 Closes: #534639, #357434
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
588 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
594 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
597 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
598 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
599 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
600 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
602 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
603 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
604 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
608 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
614 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
621 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
624 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
628 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
632 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
633 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
635 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
636 file support. Closes: #494914
637 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
641 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
644 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
645 parameters. Closes: #527256
646 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
647 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
648 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
652 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
656 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
657 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
658 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
662 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
665 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
666 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
667 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
671 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
674 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
675 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
677 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
678 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
679 by triggers). Closes: #521181
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
683 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
687 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
691 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
694 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
695 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
696 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
697 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
702 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
708 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
711 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
712 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
713 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
714 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
715 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
717 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
718 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
719 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
720 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
721 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
722 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
726 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
729 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
730 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
731 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
732 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
733 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
735 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
739 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
741 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
745 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
747 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
748 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
749 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
750 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
751 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
752 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
753 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
754 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
755 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
756 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
757 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
761 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
763 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
764 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
766 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
767 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
768 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
769 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
771 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
772 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
776 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
778 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
779 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
780 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
781 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
782 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
783 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
784 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
786 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
787 that uses them. Affected options are:
788 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
789 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
790 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
791 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
792 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
793 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
794 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
795 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
796 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
797 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
798 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
799 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
803 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
810 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
816 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
818 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
819 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
821 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
822 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
823 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
824 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
825 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
827 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
829 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
830 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
831 rules (see bug #509756).
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
835 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
841 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
842 * Typo. Closes: #493062
843 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
844 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
848 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
851 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
852 empty files. Closes: #490937
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
856 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
862 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
869 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
872 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
873 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
874 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
875 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
880 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
882 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
883 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
884 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
885 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
889 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
892 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
893 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
894 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
895 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
896 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
900 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
907 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
909 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
910 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
911 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
912 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
913 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
914 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
915 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
916 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
917 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
918 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
922 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
925 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
926 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
927 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
928 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
930 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
931 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
932 breaking backwards compatibility.
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
936 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
939 message in perl 5.10.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
943 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
949 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Convert copyright file to new format.
952 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
956 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
959 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
963 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
966 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
967 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
968 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
969 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
970 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
971 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
972 logging by dh_listpackages.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
976 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
978 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
979 run and there are no packages of that type.
980 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
981 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
982 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
983 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
985 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
986 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
990 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
992 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
993 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
994 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
998 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1001 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1002 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1004 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1005 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1006 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1007 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1008 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1009 planned but not yet implemented.)
1010 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1011 if the Makefile has such a target.
1012 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1013 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1014 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1015 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1016 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1017 but not yet implemented.)
1018 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1019 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1020 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1021 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1022 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1024 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1026 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1027 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1029 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1030 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1031 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1036 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1039 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1040 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1044 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1046 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1047 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1048 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1052 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1058 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1064 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1067 just those installed by the program.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1071 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1074 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1075 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1079 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1082 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1083 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1084 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1085 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1089 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1092 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1093 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1097 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1100 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1101 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1105 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1108 with policy. Closes: #461392
1109 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1110 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1111 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1112 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1113 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1117 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1120 Closes: #460340, #460351
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1124 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1127 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1128 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1129 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1130 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1134 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1137 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1138 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1139 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1140 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1141 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1142 package build directory won't work.
1143 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1144 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1145 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1146 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1147 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1148 mode. Closes: #459426
1149 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1154 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1157 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1161 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1165 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1166 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1167 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1168 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1169 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1170 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1174 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1177 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1178 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1179 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1180 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1184 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1187 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1188 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1189 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1190 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1191 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1195 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1198 debian/package.triggers files.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1202 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1205 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1209 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1212 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1213 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1214 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1215 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1220 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1223 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1227 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1230 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1231 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1233 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1238 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1242 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1243 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1244 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1248 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1255 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1262 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1265 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1267 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1268 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1269 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1271 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1272 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1273 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1277 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1280 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1281 * Update urls to web page.
1282 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1283 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1284 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1285 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1289 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1292 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1293 - typo in alternatives call
1294 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1296 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1297 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1301 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1304 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1309 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1315 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1321 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1324 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1326 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1327 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1328 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1329 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1330 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1331 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1332 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1333 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1334 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1335 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1336 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1340 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1343 package install. Closes: #415717
1344 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1345 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1346 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1347 script and then remove the python files.
1348 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1349 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1350 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1351 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1352 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1353 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1354 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1355 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1356 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1357 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1358 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1359 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1360 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1364 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Correct typo in french translation
1370 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1371 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1373 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1375 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1376 Closes: #406921, #381940
1377 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1379 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1380 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1381 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1382 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1383 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1384 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1385 specified). Closes: #381851
1386 * Misc minor changes.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1390 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1397 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1398 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1402 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1408 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1409 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1412 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1413 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1415 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1416 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1417 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1418 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1422 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1425 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1428 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1432 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1438 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1444 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1445 a difficult situation.
1446 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1447 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1448 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1449 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1450 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1451 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1452 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1453 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1454 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1455 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1459 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Non-maintainer upload.
1462 * Update of dh_python
1463 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1464 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1466 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1467 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1468 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1469 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1470 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1472 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1474 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Non-maintainer upload.
1477 * Update of dh_python
1478 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1479 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1480 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1481 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1482 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1483 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1484 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1485 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1486 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1487 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1489 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1490 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1491 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1492 the not too-distant future).
1493 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1494 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1495 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1496 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1497 thus made the build fail.
1499 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1501 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Non-maintainer upload.
1504 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1506 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1508 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1511 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1512 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1513 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1514 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1515 package. Closes: #301424
1516 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1517 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1518 fonts). Closes: #372686
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1522 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1528 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1529 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1530 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1531 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1532 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1533 above, but already depends on that.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1537 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1540 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1541 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1542 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1543 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1544 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1548 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1554 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1560 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1561 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1565 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1568 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1572 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1576 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1577 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1578 new version (0.24.1).
1579 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1580 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1583 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1584 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1585 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1586 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1587 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1588 new directory on their own.
1589 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1590 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1594 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1597 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1598 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1599 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1600 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1604 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1607 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1608 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1609 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1610 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1611 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1615 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1621 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1625 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1626 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1630 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1631 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1635 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1637 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1638 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1640 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1641 ignored. Closes: #337664
1643 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1648 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1654 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1659 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1660 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1661 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1662 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1663 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1664 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1665 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1669 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1672 version. Closes: #350607
1673 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1674 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1675 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1676 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1680 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1683 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1684 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1685 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1689 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1696 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1702 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1705 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1709 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1712 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1713 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1714 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1715 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1716 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1717 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1721 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1724 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1725 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1730 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1733 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1737 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1740 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1744 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1747 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1748 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1749 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1750 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1751 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1752 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1756 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1760 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1761 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1762 link. Closes: #346405
1763 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1765 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1766 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1767 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1768 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1769 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1770 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1771 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1775 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1782 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1788 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1791 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1795 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1798 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1803 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1807 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1808 installed. Closes: #342033
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1812 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1815 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1816 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1817 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1822 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1828 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1834 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1838 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1839 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1840 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1844 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1847 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1852 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1859 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1865 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1868 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1869 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1870 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1871 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1872 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1873 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1874 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1876 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1880 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1883 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1884 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1888 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1891 in standard man dirs.
1892 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1896 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1902 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1905 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1910 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1917 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1924 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1927 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1928 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1932 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1935 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1936 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1937 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1939 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1941 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1956 mode. Closes: #324161
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1960 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1963 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1964 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1965 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1966 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1971 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1974 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1975 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1976 is necesary for sanity.
1977 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1978 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1983 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1985 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1986 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1990 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1993 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1997 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2003 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2006 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2007 released, so use at your own risk.
2008 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2009 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2011 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2012 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2013 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2014 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2015 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2016 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2017 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2018 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2019 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2020 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2021 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2022 including twice per config file line now..
2023 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2024 and simplfy the rules file.
2025 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2026 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2027 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2029 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2030 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2034 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2037 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2041 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2044 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2048 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2051 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2055 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2058 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2059 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2060 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2061 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2062 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2063 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2067 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2070 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2071 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2072 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2077 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2080 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2081 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2086 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2089 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2090 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2091 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2096 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2099 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2100 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2101 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2105 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2111 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2118 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2121 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2122 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2123 unknown. Closes: #282924
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2127 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2134 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Spanish man page updates.
2137 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2142 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2148 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2151 * dh_desktop: reindent
2152 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2153 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2157 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2163 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2165 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2169 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2171 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2175 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2178 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2179 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2183 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2189 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2195 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2202 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2205 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2209 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2212 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2213 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2214 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2215 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2216 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2217 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2219 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2220 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2221 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2222 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2223 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2224 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2225 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2226 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2227 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2228 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2229 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2230 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2231 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2232 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2233 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2234 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2238 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2245 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2248 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2252 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2255 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2259 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2262 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2266 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2269 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2273 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2279 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2285 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2291 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2294 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2295 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2296 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2300 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2303 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2307 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2310 but occasionally right and necessary.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2314 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2317 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2318 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2319 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2320 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2321 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2325 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2328 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2330 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2331 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2332 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2333 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2334 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2335 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2336 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2337 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2338 postinst scripts for udebs.
2339 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2343 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2346 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2348 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2349 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2353 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2359 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2366 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2373 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2376 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2380 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2383 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2387 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2390 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2393 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2394 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2398 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2404 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2407 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2411 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2414 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2415 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2416 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2418 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2420 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2421 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2422 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2426 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2429 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2434 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2437 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2438 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2439 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2444 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2450 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2459 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2460 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2461 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2462 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2463 associated -dbg packages.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2467 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2470 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2474 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2477 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2484 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2491 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2496 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2499 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2503 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2506 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2511 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2514 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2518 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2522 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2523 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2524 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2525 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2526 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2527 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2528 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2529 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2530 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2531 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2535 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2538 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2543 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2546 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2547 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2551 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2554 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2555 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2560 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2563 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2567 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2570 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2574 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2577 out section number. Closes: #204731
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2581 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2588 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2594 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2600 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2603 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2604 removal. Closes: #204286
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2611 renaming. Closes: #203548
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2618 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2619 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2623 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2629 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2635 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2641 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2644 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2645 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2646 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2650 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2653 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2654 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2658 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2664 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2671 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2674 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2679 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2682 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2686 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2689 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2691 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2692 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2696 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2699 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2704 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2707 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2711 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2717 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2719 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2723 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2726 it break hard links (see #188663).
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2730 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2733 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2737 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2743 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2747 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2748 debconf-mergetemplates
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2752 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2755 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2759 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2762 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2766 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2769 * Update debhelper(1).
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2773 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2776 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2777 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2778 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2779 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2780 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2784 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2787 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2788 the shell. Closes: #178524
2789 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2793 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2796 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2800 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2803 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2807 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2810 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2811 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2812 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2813 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2818 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2821 files from installation.
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2825 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2828 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2829 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2833 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2836 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2840 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2843 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2847 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2853 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2859 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2863 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2864 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2866 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2870 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2873 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2874 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2875 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2876 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2880 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2883 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2887 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2890 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2891 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2895 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2899 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2904 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2910 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2914 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2915 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2916 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2921 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2924 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2925 practice. Closes: #163303
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2929 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2935 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2942 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2945 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2947 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2948 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2949 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2950 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2951 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2955 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2958 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2963 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2979 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2984 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2990 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2996 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3002 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3009 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3012 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3013 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3014 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3015 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3020 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3026 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3033 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3036 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3037 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3044 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3045 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3046 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3047 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3048 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3052 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3055 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3057 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3062 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3065 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3069 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3072 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3073 right thing. Closes: #150644
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3077 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * Stupid, evil typo.
3080 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3084 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3091 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3094 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3095 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3100 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3106 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3109 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3113 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3116 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3117 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3122 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3125 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3129 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3135 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3138 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3139 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3143 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3149 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * Removing perl warning message.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3155 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3158 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3159 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3160 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3161 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3162 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3163 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3164 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3165 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3169 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3175 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3182 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3185 debconf-mergetemplate.
3186 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3187 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3191 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3194 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3195 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3196 dh_install, which ...
3197 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3198 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3199 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3200 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3201 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3202 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3203 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3204 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3205 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3206 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3207 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3208 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3209 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3210 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3211 other minor changes.
3212 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3213 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3214 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3215 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3216 course there's -X ..)
3217 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3218 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3219 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3221 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3222 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3223 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3224 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3225 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3230 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3236 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3239 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3243 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3249 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3255 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3261 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3267 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3270 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3271 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3272 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3273 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3275 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3276 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3280 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3286 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3289 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3293 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3296 upset. Closes: #131322
3298 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3300 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3303 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3304 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3305 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3306 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3307 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3308 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3309 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3310 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3311 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3312 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3313 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3314 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3315 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3316 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3317 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3319 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3323 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3326 - Better indenting of generated code.
3327 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3331 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3335 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3336 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3337 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3338 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3339 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3340 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3341 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3345 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3348 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3352 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3355 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3356 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3357 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3358 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3359 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3360 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3361 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3362 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3363 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3364 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3365 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3366 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3367 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3368 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3369 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3374 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3380 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3383 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3384 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3388 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3391 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3392 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3396 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3402 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3405 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3406 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3407 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3408 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3409 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3414 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3420 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3423 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3427 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3430 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3435 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3441 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3444 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3448 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3454 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3458 Also some indentation fixes.
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3462 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3465 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3466 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3467 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3468 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3469 Closes: #106514, #85520
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3473 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3479 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3485 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3491 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3497 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3503 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3506 change it in debhelper v4..
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3510 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3516 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3519 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3523 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3526 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3530 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3536 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3539 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3540 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3541 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3542 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3543 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3544 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3545 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3546 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3547 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3548 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3549 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3550 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3554 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3557 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3561 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3568 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3571 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3572 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3573 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3574 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3575 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3576 program those options go to. So, for example,
3577 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3578 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3579 something complex. Closes: #89311
3580 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3584 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3587 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3588 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3589 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3593 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3596 through loop. Closes: #98598
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3600 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Missing semi-colon.
3603 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3604 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3608 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3611 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3612 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3613 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3617 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3620 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3621 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3625 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3628 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3632 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3635 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3636 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3640 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3643 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3644 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3645 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3649 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3652 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3653 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3654 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3658 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3661 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3665 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3671 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3677 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3683 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3689 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3692 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3696 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3699 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3700 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3701 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3702 followed. Closes: #85483
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3706 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3708 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3709 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3710 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3714 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3717 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3718 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3719 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3720 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3721 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3722 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3723 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3724 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3725 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3726 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3727 Closes: #88464, #77743
3728 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3729 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3730 us to deal with that gracefully.
3731 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3733 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3734 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3735 a while, Closes: #51225
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3739 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3745 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3748 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3752 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3756 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3761 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3764 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3765 don't make packlist files.
3766 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3767 debhelper coding standards.
3768 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3769 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3773 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3776 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3780 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3783 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3784 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3785 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3786 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3787 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3788 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3789 but is mildly deprecated.
3790 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3791 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3792 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3793 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3794 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3795 switching to statoverrides..
3796 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3797 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3798 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3799 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3800 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3801 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3803 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3804 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3805 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3806 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3807 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3808 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3809 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3810 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3811 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3813 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3814 variable names, pod man pages).
3815 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3816 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3817 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3818 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3819 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3820 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3821 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3825 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3831 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3838 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3841 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3845 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3847 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3848 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3849 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3853 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3855 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3856 they were previously ignored.
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3860 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3862 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3863 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3867 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3869 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3870 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3871 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3875 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3877 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3881 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3883 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3884 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3888 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3890 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3891 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3892 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3893 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3894 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3895 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3896 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3897 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3898 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3899 it is an obsolete program.
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3903 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3905 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3909 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3913 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3915 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3919 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3921 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3923 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3925 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3929 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3935 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * typo: Closes, #78567
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3941 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3947 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3953 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3956 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3957 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3958 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3959 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3960 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3964 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3967 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3972 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3975 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3976 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3977 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3978 backwards-compatibility.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3982 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3985 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3986 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3987 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3988 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3989 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3990 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3992 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3993 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3994 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3996 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3998 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3999 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4000 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4001 should now be raised to severity important..
4002 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4003 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4007 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4010 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4015 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4021 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4023 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4027 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4033 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4040 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4043 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4044 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4045 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4046 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4050 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4056 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4059 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4060 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4061 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4062 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4063 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4064 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4069 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4072 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4076 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4082 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4085 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4090 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4093 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4094 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4095 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4096 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4100 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4104 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4107 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4110 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4111 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4114 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4116 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4117 the TODO entry about it.
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4121 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4128 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4131 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4132 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4139 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4140 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4141 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4142 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4146 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4152 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4159 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4162 (this appears to be logal).
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4166 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4169 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4170 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4171 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4172 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4176 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4182 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4185 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4186 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4187 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4188 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4192 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4198 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4201 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4205 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4215 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4216 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4217 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4222 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4235 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4238 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4239 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4240 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4241 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4242 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4243 notice until v2 is complete.
4244 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4245 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4246 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4247 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4248 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4249 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4251 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4252 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4253 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4254 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4258 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4264 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4271 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4274 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4278 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4285 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4288 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4289 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4290 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4291 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4296 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4299 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4300 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4301 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4306 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4309 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4310 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4314 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4317 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4321 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4324 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4328 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4335 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4338 depend on the build and install targets.
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4342 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4345 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4349 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4356 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4362 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4368 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4371 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4372 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4373 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4374 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4375 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4376 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4378 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4379 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4380 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4381 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4382 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4383 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4384 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4388 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4394 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4400 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4403 right place. Closes: #55065
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4407 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4414 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4417 * Copyright date updates.
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4421 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4424 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4429 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4435 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4442 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4448 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4454 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4460 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4463 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4464 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4465 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4466 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4467 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4468 bits until all files have been registered.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4472 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * dh_installmanpages:
4475 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4476 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4477 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4478 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4479 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4480 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4481 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4482 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4483 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4484 otherwise change the result at all.
4486 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4487 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4488 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4489 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4490 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4495 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4501 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4504 act on files that don't exist.
4505 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4506 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4507 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4509 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4510 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4511 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4512 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4516 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4522 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4528 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4531 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4535 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4538 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4540 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4541 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4542 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4546 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4549 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4550 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4551 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4552 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4553 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4554 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4555 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4557 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4559 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4563 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4570 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4576 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4582 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4585 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4589 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4595 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4601 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4604 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4605 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4606 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4607 I made some changes, though:
4608 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4609 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4610 that is a clear violation of policy.
4611 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4612 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4613 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4614 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4615 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4616 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4617 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4618 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4619 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4621 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4625 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4631 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4634 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4638 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4641 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4642 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4647 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4653 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4660 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4663 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4664 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4665 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4666 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4667 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4668 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4669 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4673 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4679 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4683 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4684 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4688 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4694 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4697 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4701 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4704 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4705 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4709 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4711 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4716 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4720 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4724 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4727 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4728 for the dependancies to be generated.
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4732 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4735 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4742 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4743 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4744 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4749 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4752 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4753 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4757 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4763 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4772 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4776 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4782 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4785 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4786 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4787 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4788 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4789 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4790 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4791 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4792 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4793 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4794 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4795 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4796 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4800 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4803 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4804 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4806 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4807 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4808 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4809 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4810 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4811 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4813 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4814 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4818 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4821 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4825 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4832 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4835 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4840 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4843 for building debhelper.
4844 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4848 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4855 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4858 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4862 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4865 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4866 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4867 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4868 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4869 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4870 it's always available.
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4874 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4877 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4878 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4879 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4883 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4886 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4887 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4891 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4897 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4900 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4904 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4910 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4913 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4914 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4915 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4919 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4922 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4927 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4930 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4931 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4933 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4934 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4938 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4944 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4950 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4953 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4957 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4960 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4961 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4963 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4967 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4970 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4971 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4972 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4976 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4979 things if CDPATH is set.
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4983 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4989 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4992 seems to make sense for the transition.
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4996 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4999 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5004 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5007 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5008 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5012 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5014 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5015 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5019 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5022 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5023 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5024 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5025 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5029 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5035 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5038 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5039 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5040 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5041 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5042 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5043 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5044 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5045 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5046 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5047 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5052 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5055 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5056 * README: mention doc/v2
5057 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5058 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5062 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5064 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5065 be using this script RSN.
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5069 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5072 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5073 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5074 more than 1 init script.
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5078 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5081 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5085 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * Changed perl version detection.
5088 * Changed call to find.
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5092 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5095 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5097 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5102 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * Really include dh_installpam.
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5108 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5111 * Wrote man page for same.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5115 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5118 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5119 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5124 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5131 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5134 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5135 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5136 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5137 x bit was being set!
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5141 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5144 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5145 well. (Closes: 38900)
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5149 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5152 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5153 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5157 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5163 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5170 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5176 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5179 help from Julian Gilbey.
5180 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5181 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5182 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5183 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5184 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5185 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5186 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5191 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5197 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5204 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5210 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5216 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5219 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5223 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5226 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5230 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5233 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5237 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5243 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5246 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5250 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5256 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5262 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5265 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5266 may be deleted. (#35845)
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5270 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * Various man page enhancements.
5273 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5278 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5281 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5282 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5286 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5289 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5290 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5291 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5293 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5294 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5299 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5305 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * Another very minor typo fix.
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5311 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * Very minor typo fix.
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5317 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5320 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5321 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5325 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5331 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5334 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5335 variables properly (#34850).
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5339 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5345 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5348 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5349 (automatically generated by build process).
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5353 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5355 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5359 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5362 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5363 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5365 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5369 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5372 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5376 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * README: minor typo fix.
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5382 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5385 leave it at that. :-)
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5389 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5395 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5401 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5404 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5405 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5406 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5410 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5413 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5417 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5420 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5424 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5427 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5428 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5429 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5430 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5434 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5437 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5438 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5439 Craig Small for spotting this.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5443 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5446 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5447 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5451 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5457 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5460 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5464 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5466 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5467 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5468 working on the last version of debhelper.
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5472 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5475 being made. (#23255)
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5479 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5485 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5488 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5492 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5495 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5496 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5497 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5498 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5502 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5505 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5506 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5507 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5508 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5510 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5511 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5513 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5518 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5520 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5524 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5530 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5533 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5534 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5535 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5536 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5537 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5538 suidregister actually supports it.
5539 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5540 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5544 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5551 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5554 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5555 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5556 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5557 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5558 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5559 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5560 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5564 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5566 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5567 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5571 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5574 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5575 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5576 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5577 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5581 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5584 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5586 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5587 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5588 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5589 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5590 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5591 effect, either. (#30118)
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5595 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5601 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5604 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5605 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5609 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5615 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5618 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5619 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5620 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5621 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5625 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5628 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5629 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5633 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5639 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5642 packages, painlessly.
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5646 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5652 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5658 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5664 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * The perl conversion is complete.
5668 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5670 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5671 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5672 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5677 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5680 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5681 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5682 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5686 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5689 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5691 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5693 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5694 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5698 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5701 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5702 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5706 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5712 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5715 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5716 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5717 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5718 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5719 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5723 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5726 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5727 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5728 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5729 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5733 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5736 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5740 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5743 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5744 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5745 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5746 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5747 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5748 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5749 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5750 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5754 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5760 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5763 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5764 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5765 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5770 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5773 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5777 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5780 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5784 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5787 sections of shared libraries.
5788 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5789 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5790 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5791 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5792 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5793 things you don't want them to.
5794 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5795 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5799 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5802 shared libraries. (#26414)
5804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5806 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5808 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5809 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5810 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5811 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5815 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5817 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5819 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5821 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5822 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5823 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5824 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5825 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5829 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5832 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5836 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5839 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5840 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5845 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5848 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5852 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5855 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5856 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5857 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5858 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5859 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5861 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5862 remove debian/files properly.
5863 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5864 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5865 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5866 * Removed bogus menu file.
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5870 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5873 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5877 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5880 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5881 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5882 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5883 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5884 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5885 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5889 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5892 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5893 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5894 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5895 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5899 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5906 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5909 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5910 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5912 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5913 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5914 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5915 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5916 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5917 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5921 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5924 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5925 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5926 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5927 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5928 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5929 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5930 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5931 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5932 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5933 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5934 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5935 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5936 passed any switches.
5937 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5941 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5944 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5945 at all for a long while.
5946 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5947 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5948 large chunks in the process.
5949 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5950 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5951 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5956 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5959 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5961 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5966 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5968 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5969 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5970 that don't always have the same files in them.
5971 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5972 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5973 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5977 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5981 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5982 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5983 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5984 updating 27 man pages.
5985 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5986 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5987 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5988 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5989 programs act on. (#25247)
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5993 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5997 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5998 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5999 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6000 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6001 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6002 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6007 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6009 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6014 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6021 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6024 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6028 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6034 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6037 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6038 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6039 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6040 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6041 package by accident.
6042 * Is version 1.0 next?
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6046 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6048 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6049 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6050 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6054 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6057 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6058 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6059 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6060 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6061 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6063 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6068 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6071 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6072 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6076 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6078 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6079 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6083 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6085 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6086 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6087 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6092 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6094 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6098 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6101 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6102 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6107 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6113 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6116 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6117 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6118 past week. Thanks, guys!
6120 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6121 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6122 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6123 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6124 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6125 would do in the same situation.
6126 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6127 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6129 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6131 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6132 permissions changed.
6133 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6134 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6135 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6136 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6137 files are treated identically.
6138 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6139 * Minor man page fixes.
6140 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6141 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6142 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6146 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6149 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6150 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6151 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6152 use -X multiple times, too.
6153 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6154 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6158 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6160 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6161 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6162 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6166 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6169 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6173 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6175 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6176 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6177 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6178 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6179 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6180 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6181 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6182 shape if you're starting a new package.
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6186 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6189 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6193 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6196 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6197 because of missing symlinks.
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6201 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6207 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6209 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6210 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6211 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6212 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6213 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6214 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6216 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6217 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6221 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6223 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6224 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6225 to be changed after the fact :-)
6226 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6230 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6232 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6233 no version string after the -V.
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6237 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6239 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6240 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6245 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6247 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6248 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6252 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6255 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6256 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6257 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6258 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6259 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6260 I always welcome corrections!
6262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6264 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6266 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6270 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6272 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6273 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6274 * Documented this new switch.
6276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6278 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6280 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6281 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6282 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6283 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6284 no packages use the old behavior.
6286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6288 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6290 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6291 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6292 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6296 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6298 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6299 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6303 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6305 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6309 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6311 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6312 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6316 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6318 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6319 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6320 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6321 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6325 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6327 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6331 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6334 into the source package by accident.
6336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6338 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6340 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6341 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6342 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6343 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6344 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6345 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6346 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6351 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6353 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6355 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6356 inspired to implement some of it.
6357 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6361 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6364 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6368 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6370 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6371 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6372 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6376 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6378 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6379 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6380 have done.) (#17598)
6382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6384 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6386 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6390 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6392 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6396 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6398 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6399 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6403 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6405 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6406 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6407 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6411 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6414 argument processor in perl.
6415 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6416 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6417 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6418 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6422 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6424 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6425 type directories. (#16933)
6426 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6427 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6428 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6429 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6430 are supported. (#16935)
6431 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6436 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6438 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6439 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6443 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6445 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6447 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6448 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6449 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6450 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6451 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6452 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6456 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6458 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6459 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6460 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6462 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6463 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6464 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6465 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6466 a given package, or -i or -a.
6467 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6468 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6469 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6470 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6471 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6472 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6473 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6474 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6475 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6477 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6478 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6479 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6483 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6485 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6486 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6487 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6492 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6494 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6495 does not have a section.
6497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6499 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6501 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6502 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6503 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6504 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6508 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6510 * Fixed typo #16215.
6512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6514 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6516 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6517 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6518 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6519 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6520 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6521 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6526 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6528 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6529 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6530 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6531 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6536 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6542 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6544 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6548 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6550 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6551 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6552 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6553 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6554 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6555 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6556 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6560 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6562 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6566 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6568 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6569 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6573 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6575 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6576 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6577 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6578 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6582 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6584 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6585 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6589 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6591 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6595 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6597 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6598 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6602 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6604 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6605 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6609 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6611 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6615 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6617 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6618 postinst, postrm, etc.
6620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6622 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6624 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6628 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6630 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6631 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6632 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6633 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6634 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6635 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6639 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6641 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6642 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6643 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6647 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6649 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6650 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6654 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6656 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6657 installing package files into.
6658 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6663 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6665 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6667 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6671 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6673 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6677 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6679 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6680 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6684 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6686 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6687 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6688 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6689 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6690 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6694 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6696 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6697 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6698 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6699 multiple binary packages.
6700 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6701 should rebuild them with this version.
6702 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6706 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6708 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6709 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6713 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6715 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6716 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6720 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6722 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6723 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6724 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6725 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6726 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6727 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6728 debian/README.debian.
6729 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6730 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6731 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6732 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6733 in a few situations.)
6735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6737 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6739 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6743 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6745 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6749 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6751 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6752 * Fixed several man pages.
6754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6756 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6758 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6759 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6760 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6764 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6766 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6767 is ready for general use.
6768 * Added man pages for all commands.
6769 * Multiple binary package support.
6770 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6771 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6772 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6774 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6775 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6776 auto-installed as parameters.
6777 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6779 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6782 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6783 the package build directory it is to act on.
6784 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6785 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6786 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6790 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6792 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6793 ready to replace debstd.
6795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400