1 debhelper (8.1.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
4 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
5 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
6 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
7 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
8 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
9 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
10 are already set to other values will not be changed.
12 * Also, support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt, by changing -O2 to -O0
13 in any variables listed by dpkg-buildflags.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 May 2011 15:24:19 -0400
17 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
23 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
26 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
27 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
31 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
33 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
34 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
35 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
36 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
37 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
38 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
39 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
40 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
45 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
49 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
50 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
52 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
53 changes may be added to that mode.
54 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
55 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
56 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
57 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
58 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
59 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
60 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
61 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
62 * Removed old example rules files.
63 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
67 * update french translation.
68 * Fix french misspelling.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
72 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
75 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
79 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
81 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
82 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
84 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
85 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
86 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
87 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
88 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
92 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
95 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
96 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
97 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
98 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
99 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
100 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
102 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
103 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
104 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
105 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
106 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
107 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
108 (Thanks, David Prévot)
109 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
110 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
111 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
112 target fails. Closes: #601037
113 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
115 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
116 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
117 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
118 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
119 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
121 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
122 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
124 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
125 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
126 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
128 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
130 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
133 * update french translation.
134 * Fix french misspelling.
135 * French translation update after massive man page typography
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
139 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
145 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
149 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
151 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
155 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
157 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
158 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
159 introduced by the fix to #527990.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
163 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
165 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
166 changes are planned for that mode.
167 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
168 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
169 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
170 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
171 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
172 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
173 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
174 (genesis) still uses them.
175 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
176 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
177 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
178 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
179 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
180 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
181 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
182 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
183 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
184 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
185 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
186 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
187 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
188 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
189 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
190 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
191 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
192 commands. (See #570039)
193 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
195 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
200 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
204 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
205 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
206 in control file or debhelper config files.
207 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
211 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
214 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
215 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
219 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
222 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
226 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
229 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
230 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
234 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Updated French translation.
237 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
238 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
239 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
240 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
242 * Typo. Closes: #571968
243 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
244 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
245 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
246 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
247 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
248 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
249 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
250 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
251 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
253 * dh: Improve documentation.
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
257 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
259 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
260 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
261 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
265 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
267 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
268 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
272 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
275 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
279 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
282 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
283 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
284 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
285 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
286 options that they do not support.
287 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
288 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
289 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
290 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
291 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
292 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
297 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
301 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
302 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
303 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
304 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
305 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
306 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
307 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
308 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
309 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
313 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
316 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
317 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
318 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
319 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
323 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Typo. Closes: #558654
326 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
327 installed. Closes: #558782
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
331 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
334 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
335 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
336 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
337 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
338 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
342 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
344 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
345 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
346 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
347 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
351 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
354 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
355 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
359 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
361 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
365 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
367 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
368 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
369 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
370 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
371 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
372 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
373 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
374 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
375 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
376 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
377 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
378 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
379 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
380 time soon.) Closes: #554509
381 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
383 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
384 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
385 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
386 document id. Closes: #555677
387 * Typo. Closes: #555659
388 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
389 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
390 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
391 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
393 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
394 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
395 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
400 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
403 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
404 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
405 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
406 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
407 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
408 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
409 translation (#494300 part 2)
412 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
414 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
415 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
416 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
417 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
418 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
422 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
425 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
426 (It was only run once due to logging.)
427 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
428 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
429 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
430 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
431 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
432 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
433 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
434 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
435 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
436 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
440 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
444 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
447 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
448 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
452 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
455 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
456 flag with arch all/any packages.
457 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
458 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
459 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
460 situation. Closes: #540794
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
464 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
468 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
469 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
470 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
471 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
472 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
475 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
476 the default. Closes: #538201
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
481 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
483 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
485 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
486 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
487 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
488 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
489 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
491 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
492 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
493 * Above Closes: #491117
494 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
499 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
505 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
506 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
507 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
511 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
514 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
515 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
516 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
517 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
518 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
523 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
526 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
527 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
531 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
533 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
537 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
539 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
540 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
542 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
543 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
544 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
548 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
550 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
551 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
555 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
561 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
563 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
564 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
565 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
570 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
572 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
576 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
579 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
580 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
581 created by using `python' first during build and install.
583 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
588 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
590 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
594 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
596 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
597 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
601 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
603 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
607 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
609 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
613 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
615 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
616 contributed by Modestas Vainius
617 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
618 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
619 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
620 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
621 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
622 that support it. Closes: #480577
623 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
624 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
625 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
627 - Adds support for cmake.
628 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
629 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
631 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
633 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
634 that use them. The options are:
635 --sourcedir, --destdir
636 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
637 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
638 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
639 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
640 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
644 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
650 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
653 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
654 default. Closes: #537140
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
658 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
661 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
662 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
666 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
669 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
673 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
676 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
680 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
683 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
685 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
686 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
687 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
691 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
694 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
695 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
696 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
700 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
703 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
704 warning or deprecation message.
705 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
706 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
707 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
708 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
709 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
710 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
711 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
712 Closes: #534639, #357434
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
716 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
722 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
725 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
726 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
727 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
728 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
730 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
731 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
732 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
736 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
742 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
749 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
752 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
756 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
760 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
761 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
763 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
764 file support. Closes: #494914
765 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
769 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
772 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
773 parameters. Closes: #527256
774 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
775 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
776 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
780 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
784 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
785 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
786 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
790 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
793 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
794 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
795 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
799 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
802 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
803 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
805 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
806 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
807 by triggers). Closes: #521181
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
811 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
815 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
819 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
822 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
823 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
824 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
825 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
830 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
836 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
839 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
840 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
841 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
842 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
843 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
845 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
846 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
847 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
848 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
849 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
850 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
854 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
856 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
857 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
858 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
859 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
860 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
861 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
863 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
867 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
869 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
873 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
875 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
876 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
877 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
878 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
879 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
880 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
881 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
882 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
883 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
884 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
885 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
889 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
891 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
892 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
894 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
895 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
896 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
897 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
899 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
900 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
904 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
906 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
907 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
908 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
909 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
910 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
911 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
912 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
914 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
915 that uses them. Affected options are:
916 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
917 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
918 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
919 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
920 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
921 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
922 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
923 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
924 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
925 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
926 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
927 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
931 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
938 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
944 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
946 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
947 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
949 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
950 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
951 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
952 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
953 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
955 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
957 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
958 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
959 rules (see bug #509756).
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
963 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
969 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
970 * Typo. Closes: #493062
971 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
972 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
976 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
978 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
979 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
980 empty files. Closes: #490937
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
984 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
990 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
997 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1000 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1001 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1002 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1003 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1008 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1010 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1011 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1012 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1013 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1017 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1020 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1021 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1022 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1023 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1024 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1028 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1035 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1038 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1039 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1040 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1041 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1042 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1043 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1044 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1045 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1046 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1050 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1053 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1054 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1055 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1056 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1058 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1059 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1060 breaking backwards compatibility.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1064 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1067 message in perl 5.10.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1071 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1077 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1080 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1084 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1087 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1091 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1094 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1095 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1096 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1097 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1098 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1099 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1100 logging by dh_listpackages.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1104 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1107 run and there are no packages of that type.
1108 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1109 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1110 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1111 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1113 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1114 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1118 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1121 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1122 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1126 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1129 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1130 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1132 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1133 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1134 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1135 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1136 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1137 planned but not yet implemented.)
1138 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1139 if the Makefile has such a target.
1140 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1141 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1142 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1143 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1144 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1145 but not yet implemented.)
1146 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1147 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1148 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1149 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1150 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1152 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1154 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1155 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1157 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1158 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1159 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1164 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1167 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1168 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1172 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1174 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1175 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1176 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1180 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1186 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1192 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1195 just those installed by the program.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1199 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1202 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1203 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1207 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1210 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1211 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1212 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1213 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1217 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1220 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1221 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1225 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1228 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1229 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1233 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1236 with policy. Closes: #461392
1237 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1238 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1239 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1240 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1241 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1245 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1248 Closes: #460340, #460351
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1252 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1255 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1256 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1257 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1258 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1262 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1265 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1266 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1267 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1268 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1269 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1270 package build directory won't work.
1271 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1272 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1273 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1274 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1275 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1276 mode. Closes: #459426
1277 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1282 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1285 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1289 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1293 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1294 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1295 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1296 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1297 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1298 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1302 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1305 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1306 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1307 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1308 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1312 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1315 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1316 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1317 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1318 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1319 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1323 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1326 debian/package.triggers files.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1330 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1333 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1337 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1340 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1341 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1342 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1343 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1348 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1351 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1355 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1358 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1359 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1361 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1366 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1370 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1371 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1372 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1376 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1383 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1390 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1393 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1395 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1396 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1397 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1399 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1400 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1401 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1405 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1408 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1409 * Update urls to web page.
1410 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1411 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1412 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1413 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1417 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1420 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1421 - typo in alternatives call
1422 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1424 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1425 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1429 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1432 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1437 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1443 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1449 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1452 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1454 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1455 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1456 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1457 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1458 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1459 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1460 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1461 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1462 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1463 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1464 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1468 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1471 package install. Closes: #415717
1472 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1473 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1474 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1475 script and then remove the python files.
1476 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1477 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1478 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1479 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1480 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1481 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1482 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1483 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1484 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1485 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1486 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1487 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1488 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1492 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Correct typo in french translation
1498 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1499 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1501 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1503 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1504 Closes: #406921, #381940
1505 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1507 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1508 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1509 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1510 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1511 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1512 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1513 specified). Closes: #381851
1514 * Misc minor changes.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1518 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1525 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1526 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1530 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1536 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1537 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1540 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1541 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1543 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1544 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1545 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1546 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1550 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1553 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1556 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1560 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1566 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1572 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1573 a difficult situation.
1574 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1575 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1576 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1577 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1578 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1579 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1580 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1581 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1582 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1583 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1587 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Non-maintainer upload.
1590 * Update of dh_python
1591 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1592 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1594 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1595 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1596 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1597 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1598 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1600 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1602 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Non-maintainer upload.
1605 * Update of dh_python
1606 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1607 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1608 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1609 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1610 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1611 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1612 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1613 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1614 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1615 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1617 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1618 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1619 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1620 the not too-distant future).
1621 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1622 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1623 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1624 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1625 thus made the build fail.
1627 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1629 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Non-maintainer upload.
1632 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1634 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1636 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1639 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1640 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1641 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1642 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1643 package. Closes: #301424
1644 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1645 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1646 fonts). Closes: #372686
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1650 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1656 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1657 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1658 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1659 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1660 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1661 above, but already depends on that.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1665 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1668 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1669 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1670 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1671 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1672 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1676 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1682 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1688 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1689 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1693 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1696 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1700 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1704 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1705 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1706 new version (0.24.1).
1707 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1708 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1711 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1712 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1713 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1714 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1715 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1716 new directory on their own.
1717 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1718 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1722 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1725 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1726 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1727 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1728 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1732 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1735 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1736 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1737 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1738 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1739 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1743 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1749 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1753 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1754 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1758 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1759 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1763 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1765 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1766 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1768 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1769 ignored. Closes: #337664
1771 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1776 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1782 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1787 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1788 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1789 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1790 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1791 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1792 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1793 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1797 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1800 version. Closes: #350607
1801 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1802 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1803 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1804 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1808 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1811 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1812 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1813 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1817 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1824 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1830 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1833 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1837 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1840 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1841 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1842 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1843 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1844 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1845 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1849 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1852 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1853 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1858 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1861 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1865 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1868 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1872 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1875 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1876 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1877 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1878 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1879 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1880 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1884 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1888 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1889 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1890 link. Closes: #346405
1891 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1893 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1894 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1895 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1896 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1897 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1898 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1899 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1903 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1910 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1916 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1919 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1923 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1926 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1931 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1935 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1936 installed. Closes: #342033
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1940 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1943 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1944 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1945 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1950 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1956 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1962 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1966 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1967 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1968 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1972 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1975 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1980 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1987 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1993 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1996 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1997 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1998 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1999 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2000 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2001 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2002 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2004 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2008 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2011 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2012 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2016 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2019 in standard man dirs.
2020 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2024 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2030 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2033 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2038 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2045 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2052 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2055 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2056 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2060 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2063 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2064 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2065 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2067 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2069 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2075 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2081 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2084 mode. Closes: #324161
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2088 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2091 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2092 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2093 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2094 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2099 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2102 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2103 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2104 is necesary for sanity.
2105 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2106 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2111 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2113 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2114 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2118 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2121 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2125 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2131 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2134 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2135 released, so use at your own risk.
2136 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2137 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2139 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2140 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2141 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2142 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2143 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2144 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2145 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2146 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2147 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2148 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2149 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2150 including twice per config file line now..
2151 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2152 and simplfy the rules file.
2153 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2154 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2155 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2157 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2158 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2162 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2165 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2169 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2172 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2176 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2179 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2183 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2186 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2187 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2188 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2189 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2190 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2191 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2195 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2198 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2199 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2200 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2205 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2208 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2209 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2214 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2217 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2218 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2219 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2224 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2227 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2228 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2229 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2233 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2239 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2246 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2249 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2250 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2251 unknown. Closes: #282924
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2255 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2262 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Spanish man page updates.
2265 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2276 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2279 * dh_desktop: reindent
2280 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2281 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2285 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2291 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2293 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2297 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2299 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2303 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2306 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2307 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2311 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2317 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2323 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2330 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2333 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2337 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2340 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2341 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2342 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2343 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2344 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2345 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2347 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2348 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2349 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2350 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2351 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2352 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2353 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2354 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2355 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2356 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2357 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2358 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2359 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2360 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2361 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2362 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2373 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2376 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2380 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2383 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2390 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2394 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2397 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2401 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2407 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2413 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2419 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2422 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2423 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2424 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2428 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2431 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2435 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2438 but occasionally right and necessary.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2442 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2445 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2446 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2447 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2448 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2449 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2453 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2456 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2458 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2459 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2460 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2461 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2462 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2463 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2464 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2465 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2466 postinst scripts for udebs.
2467 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2471 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2474 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2476 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2477 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2481 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2487 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2494 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2501 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2504 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2508 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2511 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2515 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2518 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2521 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2522 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2526 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2532 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2535 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2539 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2542 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2543 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2544 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2546 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2548 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2549 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2550 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2554 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2557 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2562 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2565 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2566 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2567 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2572 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2578 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2584 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2587 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2588 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2589 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2590 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2591 associated -dbg packages.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2595 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2598 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2602 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2605 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2609 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2612 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2616 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2619 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2624 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2627 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2631 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2634 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2639 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2642 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2646 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2650 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2651 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2652 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2653 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2654 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2655 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2656 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2657 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2658 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2659 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2663 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2666 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2671 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2674 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2675 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2679 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2682 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2683 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2688 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2691 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2695 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2698 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2702 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2705 out section number. Closes: #204731
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2709 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2716 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2722 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2728 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2731 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2732 removal. Closes: #204286
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2736 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2739 renaming. Closes: #203548
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2743 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2746 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2747 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2751 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2757 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2763 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2769 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2772 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2773 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2774 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2778 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2781 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2782 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2786 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2792 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2799 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2802 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2807 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2810 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2814 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2817 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2819 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2820 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2824 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2827 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2832 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2835 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2839 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2845 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2847 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2851 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2854 it break hard links (see #188663).
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2858 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2861 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2865 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2871 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2875 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2876 debconf-mergetemplates
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2880 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2883 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2887 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2890 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2894 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2897 * Update debhelper(1).
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2901 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2904 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2905 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2906 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2907 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2908 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2912 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2915 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2916 the shell. Closes: #178524
2917 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2921 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2924 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2928 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2931 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2935 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2938 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2939 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2940 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2941 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2946 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2949 files from installation.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2953 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2956 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2957 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2961 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2964 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2968 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2971 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2975 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2981 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2987 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2991 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2992 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2994 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2998 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3001 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3002 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3003 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3004 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3008 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3011 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3015 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3018 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3019 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3023 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3027 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3038 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3042 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3043 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3044 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3049 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3052 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3053 practice. Closes: #163303
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3057 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3063 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3070 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3073 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3075 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3076 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3077 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3078 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3079 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3083 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3086 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3091 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3097 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3104 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3107 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3112 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3118 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3124 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3130 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3137 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3140 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3141 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3142 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3143 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3148 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3154 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3161 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3164 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3165 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3169 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3172 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3173 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3174 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3175 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3176 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3180 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3183 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3185 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3190 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3193 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3197 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3200 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3201 right thing. Closes: #150644
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3205 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * Stupid, evil typo.
3208 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3212 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3219 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3222 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3223 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3228 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3234 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3237 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3241 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3244 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3245 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3250 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3253 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3257 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3263 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3266 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3267 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3271 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3277 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Removing perl warning message.
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3283 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3286 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3287 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3288 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3289 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3290 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3291 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3292 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3293 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3297 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3303 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3310 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3313 debconf-mergetemplate.
3314 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3315 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3319 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3322 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3323 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3324 dh_install, which ...
3325 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3326 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3327 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3328 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3329 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3330 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3331 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3332 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3333 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3334 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3335 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3336 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3337 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3338 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3339 other minor changes.
3340 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3341 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3342 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3343 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3344 course there's -X ..)
3345 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3346 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3347 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3349 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3350 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3351 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3352 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3353 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3358 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3364 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3367 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3371 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3377 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3383 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3389 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3395 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3398 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3399 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3400 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3401 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3403 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3404 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3408 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3414 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3417 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3421 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3424 upset. Closes: #131322
3426 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3428 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3431 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3432 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3433 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3434 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3435 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3436 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3437 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3438 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3439 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3440 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3441 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3442 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3443 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3444 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3445 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3447 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3451 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3454 - Better indenting of generated code.
3455 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3459 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3463 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3464 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3465 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3466 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3467 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3468 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3469 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3473 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3476 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3480 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3483 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3484 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3485 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3486 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3487 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3488 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3489 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3490 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3491 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3492 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3493 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3494 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3495 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3496 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3497 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3502 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3508 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3511 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3512 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3516 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3519 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3520 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3524 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3530 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3533 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3534 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3535 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3536 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3537 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3542 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3548 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3551 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3555 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3558 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3563 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3569 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3572 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3576 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3582 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3586 Also some indentation fixes.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3590 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3593 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3594 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3595 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3596 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3597 Closes: #106514, #85520
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3601 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3607 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3613 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3619 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3625 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3631 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3634 change it in debhelper v4..
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3638 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3644 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3647 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3651 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3654 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3658 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3664 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3667 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3668 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3669 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3670 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3671 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3672 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3673 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3674 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3675 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3676 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3677 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3678 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3682 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3685 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3689 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3696 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3699 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3700 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3701 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3702 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3703 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3704 program those options go to. So, for example,
3705 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3706 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3707 something complex. Closes: #89311
3708 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3712 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3715 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3716 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3717 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3721 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3724 through loop. Closes: #98598
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3728 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * Missing semi-colon.
3731 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3732 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3736 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3739 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3740 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3741 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3745 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3748 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3749 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3753 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3756 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3760 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3763 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3764 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3768 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3771 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3772 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3773 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3777 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3780 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3781 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3782 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3786 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3789 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3793 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3799 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3805 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3811 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3817 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3820 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3824 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3827 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3828 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3829 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3830 followed. Closes: #85483
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3834 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3836 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3837 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3838 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3842 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3845 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3846 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3847 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3848 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3849 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3850 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3851 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3852 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3853 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3854 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3855 Closes: #88464, #77743
3856 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3857 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3858 us to deal with that gracefully.
3859 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3861 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3862 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3863 a while, Closes: #51225
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3867 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3873 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3876 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3880 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3884 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3889 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3892 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3893 don't make packlist files.
3894 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3895 debhelper coding standards.
3896 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3897 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3901 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3904 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3908 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3911 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3912 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3913 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3914 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3915 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3916 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3917 but is mildly deprecated.
3918 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3919 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3920 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3921 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3922 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3923 switching to statoverrides..
3924 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3925 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3926 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3927 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3928 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3929 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3931 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3932 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3933 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3934 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3935 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3936 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3937 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3938 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3939 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3941 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3942 variable names, pod man pages).
3943 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3944 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3945 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3946 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3947 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3948 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3949 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3953 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3959 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3966 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3969 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3973 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3975 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3976 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3977 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3981 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3983 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3984 they were previously ignored.
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3988 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3990 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3991 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3995 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3997 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3998 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3999 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4003 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4005 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4009 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4011 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4012 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4016 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4018 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4019 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4020 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4021 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4022 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4023 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4024 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4025 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4026 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4027 it is an obsolete program.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4031 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4033 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4037 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4041 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4043 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4047 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4049 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4051 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4053 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4057 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4063 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * typo: Closes, #78567
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4069 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4075 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4081 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4084 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4085 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4086 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4087 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4088 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4092 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4095 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4100 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4103 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4104 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4105 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4106 backwards-compatibility.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4110 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4113 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4114 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4115 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4116 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4117 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4118 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4120 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4121 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4122 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4124 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4126 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4127 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4128 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4129 should now be raised to severity important..
4130 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4131 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4135 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4138 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4143 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4149 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4155 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4161 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4168 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4171 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4172 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4173 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4174 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4178 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4184 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4187 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4188 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4189 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4190 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4191 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4192 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4197 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4200 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4204 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4210 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4213 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4218 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4221 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4222 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4223 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4224 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4228 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4232 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4235 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4238 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4239 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4242 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4244 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4245 the TODO entry about it.
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4249 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4256 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4259 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4260 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4264 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4267 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4268 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4269 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4270 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4274 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4280 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4287 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4290 (this appears to be logal).
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4294 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4297 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4298 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4299 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4300 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4304 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4310 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4313 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4314 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4315 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4316 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4320 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4326 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4329 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4333 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4340 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4343 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4344 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4345 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4350 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4357 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4363 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4366 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4367 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4368 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4369 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4370 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4371 notice until v2 is complete.
4372 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4373 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4374 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4375 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4376 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4377 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4379 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4380 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4381 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4382 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4386 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4392 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4394 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4402 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4406 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4413 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4416 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4417 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4418 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4419 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4424 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4427 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4428 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4429 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4434 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4437 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4438 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4442 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4445 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4449 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4452 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4456 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4463 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4466 depend on the build and install targets.
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4470 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4473 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4477 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4484 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4490 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4496 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4499 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4500 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4501 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4502 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4503 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4504 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4506 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4507 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4508 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4509 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4510 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4511 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4512 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4516 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4522 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4528 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4531 right place. Closes: #55065
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4535 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4542 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4545 * Copyright date updates.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4549 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4552 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4557 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4563 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4570 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4576 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4582 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4588 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4591 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4592 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4593 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4594 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4595 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4596 bits until all files have been registered.
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4600 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * dh_installmanpages:
4603 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4604 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4605 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4606 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4607 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4608 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4609 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4610 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4611 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4612 otherwise change the result at all.
4614 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4615 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4616 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4617 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4618 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4623 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4629 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4632 act on files that don't exist.
4633 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4634 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4635 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4637 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4638 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4639 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4640 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4644 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4650 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4656 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4659 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4663 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4666 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4668 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4669 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4670 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4674 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4677 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4678 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4679 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4680 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4681 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4682 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4683 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4685 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4687 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4691 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4698 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4710 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4713 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4717 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4729 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4732 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4733 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4734 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4735 I made some changes, though:
4736 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4737 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4738 that is a clear violation of policy.
4739 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4740 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4741 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4742 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4743 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4744 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4745 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4746 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4747 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4749 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4753 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4759 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4762 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4766 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4769 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4770 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4775 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4781 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4788 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4791 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4792 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4793 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4794 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4795 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4796 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4797 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4801 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4807 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4811 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4812 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4816 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4822 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4825 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4829 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4832 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4833 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4837 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4839 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4844 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4848 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4852 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4855 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4856 for the dependancies to be generated.
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4860 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4863 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4867 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4870 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4871 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4872 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4877 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4880 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4881 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4885 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4891 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4897 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4900 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4904 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4910 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4913 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4914 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4915 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4916 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4917 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4918 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4919 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4920 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4921 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4922 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4923 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4924 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4928 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4931 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4932 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4934 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4935 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4936 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4937 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4938 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4939 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4941 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4942 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4946 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4949 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4953 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4960 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4963 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4968 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4971 for building debhelper.
4972 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4976 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4983 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4986 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4990 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4993 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4994 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4995 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4996 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4997 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4998 it's always available.
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5002 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5005 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5006 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5007 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5011 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5014 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5015 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5019 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5025 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5028 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5032 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5038 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5041 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5042 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5043 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5047 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5050 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5055 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5058 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5059 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5061 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5062 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5066 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5072 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5078 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5081 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5085 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5088 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5089 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5091 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5095 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5098 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5099 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5100 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5104 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5107 things if CDPATH is set.
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5111 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5117 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5120 seems to make sense for the transition.
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5124 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5127 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5132 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5135 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5136 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5140 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5143 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5147 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5150 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5151 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5152 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5153 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5157 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5163 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5166 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5167 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5168 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5169 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5170 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5171 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5172 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5173 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5174 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5175 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5180 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5183 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5184 * README: mention doc/v2
5185 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5186 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5190 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5192 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5193 be using this script RSN.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5197 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5200 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5201 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5202 more than 1 init script.
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5206 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5209 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5213 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5215 * Changed perl version detection.
5216 * Changed call to find.
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5220 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5223 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5225 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5230 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * Really include dh_installpam.
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5236 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5239 * Wrote man page for same.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5243 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5246 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5247 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5252 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5259 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5262 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5263 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5264 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5265 x bit was being set!
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5269 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5272 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5273 well. (Closes: 38900)
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5277 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5280 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5281 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5285 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5291 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5298 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5304 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5307 help from Julian Gilbey.
5308 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5309 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5310 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5311 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5312 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5313 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5314 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5319 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5325 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5332 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5338 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5344 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5347 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5351 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5354 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5358 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5361 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5365 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5371 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5374 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5378 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5384 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5390 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5393 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5394 may be deleted. (#35845)
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5398 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * Various man page enhancements.
5401 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5406 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5409 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5410 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5414 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5417 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5418 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5419 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5421 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5422 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5427 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5433 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * Another very minor typo fix.
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5439 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * Very minor typo fix.
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5445 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5448 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5449 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5453 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5459 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5462 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5463 variables properly (#34850).
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5467 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5473 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5476 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5477 (automatically generated by build process).
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5481 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5483 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5487 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5490 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5491 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5493 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5497 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5500 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5504 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * README: minor typo fix.
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5510 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5513 leave it at that. :-)
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5517 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5523 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5529 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5532 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5533 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5534 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5538 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5540 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5541 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5545 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5548 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5552 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5555 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5556 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5557 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5558 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5562 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5565 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5566 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5567 Craig Small for spotting this.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5571 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5574 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5575 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5579 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5585 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5588 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5592 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5594 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5595 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5596 working on the last version of debhelper.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5600 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5603 being made. (#23255)
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5607 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5613 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5616 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5620 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5623 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5624 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5625 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5626 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5630 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5632 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5633 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5634 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5635 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5636 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5638 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5639 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5641 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5646 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5652 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5658 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5661 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5662 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5663 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5664 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5665 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5666 suidregister actually supports it.
5667 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5668 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5672 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5674 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5679 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5682 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5683 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5684 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5685 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5686 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5687 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5688 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5692 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5694 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5695 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5699 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5702 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5703 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5704 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5705 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5709 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5712 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5714 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5715 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5716 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5717 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5718 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5719 effect, either. (#30118)
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5723 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5729 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5732 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5733 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5737 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5743 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5746 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5747 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5748 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5749 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5753 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5755 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5756 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5757 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5761 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5767 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5770 packages, painlessly.
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5774 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5780 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5786 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5792 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * The perl conversion is complete.
5796 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5798 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5799 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5800 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5805 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5808 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5809 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5810 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5814 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5817 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5819 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5821 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5822 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5826 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5829 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5830 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5834 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5840 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5843 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5844 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5845 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5846 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5847 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5851 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5854 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5855 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5856 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5857 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5861 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5864 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5868 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5870 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5871 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5872 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5873 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5874 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5875 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5876 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5877 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5878 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5882 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5888 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5891 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5892 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5893 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5898 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5901 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5905 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5908 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5912 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5915 sections of shared libraries.
5916 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5917 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5918 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5919 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5920 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5921 things you don't want them to.
5922 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5923 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5927 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5930 shared libraries. (#26414)
5932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5934 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5936 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5937 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5938 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5939 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5943 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5945 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5947 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5949 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5950 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5951 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5952 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5953 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5957 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5959 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5960 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5964 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5967 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5968 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5973 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5976 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5980 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5982 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5983 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5984 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5985 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5986 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5987 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5989 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5990 remove debian/files properly.
5991 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5992 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5993 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5994 * Removed bogus menu file.
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5998 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6001 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6005 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6008 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6009 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6010 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6011 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6012 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6013 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6017 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6019 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6020 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6021 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6022 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6023 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6027 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6029 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6034 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6037 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6038 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6040 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6041 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6042 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6043 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6044 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6045 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6049 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6052 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6053 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6054 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6055 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6056 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6057 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6058 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6059 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6060 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6061 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6062 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6063 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6064 passed any switches.
6065 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6069 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6071 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6072 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6073 at all for a long while.
6074 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6075 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6076 large chunks in the process.
6077 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6078 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6079 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6084 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6086 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6087 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6089 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6094 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6097 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6098 that don't always have the same files in them.
6099 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6100 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6101 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6105 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6107 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6109 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6110 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6111 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6112 updating 27 man pages.
6113 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6114 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6115 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6116 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6117 programs act on. (#25247)
6119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6121 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6125 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6126 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6127 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6128 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6129 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6130 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6135 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6137 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6142 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6149 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6151 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6152 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6156 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6162 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6164 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6165 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6166 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6167 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6168 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6169 package by accident.
6170 * Is version 1.0 next?
6172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6174 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6176 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6177 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6178 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6182 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6184 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6185 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6186 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6187 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6188 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6189 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6191 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6196 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6198 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6199 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6200 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6204 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6206 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6207 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6211 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6214 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6215 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6220 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6222 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6226 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6228 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6229 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6230 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6235 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6237 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6241 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6243 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6244 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6245 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6246 past week. Thanks, guys!
6248 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6249 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6250 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6251 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6252 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6253 would do in the same situation.
6254 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6255 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6257 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6259 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6260 permissions changed.
6261 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6262 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6263 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6264 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6265 files are treated identically.
6266 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6267 * Minor man page fixes.
6268 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6269 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6270 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6274 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6276 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6277 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6278 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6279 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6280 use -X multiple times, too.
6281 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6282 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6286 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6289 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6290 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6294 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6296 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6297 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6301 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6303 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6304 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6305 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6306 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6307 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6308 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6309 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6310 shape if you're starting a new package.
6312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6314 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6316 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6317 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6321 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6323 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6324 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6325 because of missing symlinks.
6327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6329 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6331 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6335 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6337 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6338 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6339 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6340 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6341 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6342 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6344 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6345 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6349 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6351 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6352 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6353 to be changed after the fact :-)
6354 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6358 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6360 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6361 no version string after the -V.
6363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6365 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6367 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6368 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6373 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6375 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6376 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6380 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6382 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6383 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6384 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6385 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6386 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6387 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6388 I always welcome corrections!
6390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6392 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6394 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6398 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6400 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6401 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6402 * Documented this new switch.
6404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6406 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6408 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6409 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6410 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6411 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6412 no packages use the old behavior.
6414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6416 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6418 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6419 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6420 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6424 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6426 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6427 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6431 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6433 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6437 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6440 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6444 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6446 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6447 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6448 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6449 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6453 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6455 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6459 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6461 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6462 into the source package by accident.
6464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6466 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6468 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6469 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6470 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6471 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6472 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6473 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6474 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6479 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6481 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6483 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6484 inspired to implement some of it.
6485 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6489 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6491 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6492 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6496 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6498 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6499 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6500 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6504 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6506 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6507 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6508 have done.) (#17598)
6510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6512 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6514 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6518 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6520 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6524 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6526 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6527 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6531 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6533 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6534 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6535 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6539 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6541 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6542 argument processor in perl.
6543 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6544 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6545 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6546 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6550 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6552 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6553 type directories. (#16933)
6554 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6555 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6556 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6557 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6558 are supported. (#16935)
6559 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6564 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6566 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6567 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6571 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6573 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6575 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6576 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6577 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6578 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6579 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6580 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6584 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6586 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6587 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6588 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6590 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6591 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6592 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6593 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6594 a given package, or -i or -a.
6595 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6596 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6597 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6598 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6599 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6600 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6601 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6602 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6603 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6605 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6606 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6607 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6611 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6613 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6614 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6615 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6620 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6622 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6623 does not have a section.
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6627 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6630 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6631 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6632 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6636 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6638 * Fixed typo #16215.
6640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6642 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6644 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6645 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6646 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6647 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6648 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6649 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6654 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6656 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6657 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6658 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6659 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6664 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6666 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6670 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6672 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6676 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6678 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6679 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6680 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6681 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6682 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6683 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6684 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6688 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6690 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6694 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6696 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6697 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6701 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6703 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6704 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6705 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6706 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6710 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6712 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6713 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6717 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6719 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6723 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6725 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6726 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6730 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6732 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6733 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6737 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6739 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6743 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6745 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6746 postinst, postrm, etc.
6748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6750 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6752 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6756 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6758 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6759 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6760 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6761 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6762 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6763 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6767 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6769 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6770 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6771 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6775 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6777 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6778 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6782 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6784 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6785 installing package files into.
6786 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6791 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6793 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6795 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6799 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6801 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6805 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6807 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6808 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6812 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6814 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6815 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6816 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6817 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6818 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6822 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6824 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6825 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6826 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6827 multiple binary packages.
6828 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6829 should rebuild them with this version.
6830 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6834 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6836 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6837 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6841 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6843 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6844 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6848 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6850 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6851 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6852 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6853 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6854 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6855 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6856 debian/README.debian.
6857 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6858 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6859 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6860 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6861 in a few situations.)
6863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6865 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6867 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6871 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6873 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6877 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6879 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6880 * Fixed several man pages.
6882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6884 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6886 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6887 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6888 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6892 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6894 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6895 is ready for general use.
6896 * Added man pages for all commands.
6897 * Multiple binary package support.
6898 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6899 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6900 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6902 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6903 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6904 auto-installed as parameters.
6905 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6907 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6910 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6911 the package build directory it is to act on.
6912 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6913 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6914 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6918 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6920 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6921 ready to replace debstd.
6923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400