1 debhelper (8.9.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
4 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:16:48 -0400
8 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
11 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
12 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
13 the targets. Closes: #629139
15 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
16 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
17 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
18 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
19 are already set to other values will not be changed.
21 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
22 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
23 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
24 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
25 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
30 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
36 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
39 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
40 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
44 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
47 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
48 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
49 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
50 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
51 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
52 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
53 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
58 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
62 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
63 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
65 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
66 changes may be added to that mode.
67 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
68 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
69 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
70 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
71 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
72 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
73 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
74 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
75 * Removed old example rules files.
76 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
80 * update french translation.
81 * Fix french misspelling.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
85 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
88 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
92 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
95 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
97 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
98 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
99 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
100 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
101 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
105 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
108 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
109 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
110 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
111 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
112 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
113 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
115 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
116 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
117 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
118 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
119 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
120 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
121 (Thanks, David Prévot)
122 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
123 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
124 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
125 target fails. Closes: #601037
126 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
128 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
129 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
130 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
131 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
132 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
134 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
135 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
137 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
138 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
139 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
141 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
143 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
146 * update french translation.
147 * Fix french misspelling.
148 * French translation update after massive man page typography
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
152 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
155 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
158 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
162 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
164 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
168 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
170 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
171 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
172 introduced by the fix to #527990.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
176 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
178 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
179 changes are planned for that mode.
180 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
181 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
182 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
183 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
184 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
185 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
186 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
187 (genesis) still uses them.
188 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
189 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
190 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
191 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
192 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
193 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
194 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
195 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
196 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
197 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
198 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
199 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
200 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
201 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
202 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
203 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
204 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
205 commands. (See #570039)
206 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
208 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
213 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
217 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
218 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
219 in control file or debhelper config files.
220 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
224 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
227 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
228 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
232 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
235 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
239 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
242 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
243 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
247 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Updated French translation.
250 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
251 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
252 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
253 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
255 * Typo. Closes: #571968
256 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
257 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
258 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
259 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
260 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
261 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
262 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
263 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
264 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
266 * dh: Improve documentation.
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
270 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
272 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
273 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
274 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
278 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
281 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
285 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
288 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
292 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
295 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
296 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
297 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
298 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
299 options that they do not support.
300 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
301 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
302 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
303 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
304 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
305 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
310 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
314 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
315 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
316 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
317 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
318 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
319 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
320 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
321 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
322 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
326 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
329 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
330 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
331 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
332 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
336 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Typo. Closes: #558654
339 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
340 installed. Closes: #558782
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
344 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
347 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
348 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
349 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
350 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
351 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
355 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
357 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
358 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
359 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
360 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
364 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
367 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
368 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
372 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
374 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
378 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
380 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
381 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
382 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
383 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
384 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
385 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
386 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
387 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
388 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
389 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
390 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
391 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
392 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
393 time soon.) Closes: #554509
394 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
396 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
397 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
398 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
399 document id. Closes: #555677
400 * Typo. Closes: #555659
401 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
402 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
403 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
404 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
406 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
407 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
408 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
413 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
416 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
417 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
418 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
419 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
420 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
421 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
422 translation (#494300 part 2)
425 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
427 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
428 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
429 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
430 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
431 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
435 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
438 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
439 (It was only run once due to logging.)
440 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
441 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
442 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
443 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
444 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
445 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
446 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
447 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
448 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
449 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
453 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
457 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
460 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
461 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
465 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
467 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
468 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
469 flag with arch all/any packages.
470 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
471 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
472 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
473 situation. Closes: #540794
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
477 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
481 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
482 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
483 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
484 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
485 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
488 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
489 the default. Closes: #538201
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
494 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
498 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
499 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
500 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
501 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
502 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
504 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
505 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
506 * Above Closes: #491117
507 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
512 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
518 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
519 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
520 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
524 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
527 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
528 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
529 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
530 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
531 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
536 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
539 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
540 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
544 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
546 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
550 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
552 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
553 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
555 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
556 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
557 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
561 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
563 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
564 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
568 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
574 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
576 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
577 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
578 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
583 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
585 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
589 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
592 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
593 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
594 created by using `python' first during build and install.
596 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
601 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
603 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
607 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
609 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
610 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
614 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
616 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
620 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
622 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
626 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
628 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
629 contributed by Modestas Vainius
630 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
631 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
632 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
633 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
634 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
635 that support it. Closes: #480577
636 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
637 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
638 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
640 - Adds support for cmake.
641 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
642 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
644 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
646 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
647 that use them. The options are:
648 --sourcedir, --destdir
649 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
650 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
651 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
652 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
653 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
657 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
663 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
666 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
667 default. Closes: #537140
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
671 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
674 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
675 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
679 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
682 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
686 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
689 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
693 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
695 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
696 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
698 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
699 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
700 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
704 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
707 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
708 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
709 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
713 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
716 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
717 warning or deprecation message.
718 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
719 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
720 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
721 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
722 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
723 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
724 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
725 Closes: #534639, #357434
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
729 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
735 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
738 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
739 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
740 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
741 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
743 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
744 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
745 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
749 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
755 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
762 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
765 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
769 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
773 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
774 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
776 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
777 file support. Closes: #494914
778 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
782 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
785 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
786 parameters. Closes: #527256
787 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
788 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
789 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
793 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
797 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
798 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
799 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
803 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
806 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
807 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
808 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
812 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
814 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
815 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
816 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
818 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
819 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
820 by triggers). Closes: #521181
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
824 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
828 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
832 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
835 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
836 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
837 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
838 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
843 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
849 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
851 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
852 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
853 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
854 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
855 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
856 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
858 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
859 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
860 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
861 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
862 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
863 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
867 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
869 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
870 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
871 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
872 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
873 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
874 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
876 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
880 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
882 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
886 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
888 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
889 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
890 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
891 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
892 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
893 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
894 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
895 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
896 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
897 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
898 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
902 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
904 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
905 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
907 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
908 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
909 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
910 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
912 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
913 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
917 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
919 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
920 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
921 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
922 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
923 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
924 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
925 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
927 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
928 that uses them. Affected options are:
929 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
930 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
931 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
932 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
933 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
934 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
935 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
936 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
937 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
938 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
939 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
940 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
944 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
951 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
957 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
959 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
960 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
962 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
963 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
964 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
965 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
966 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
968 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
970 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
971 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
972 rules (see bug #509756).
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
976 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
982 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
983 * Typo. Closes: #493062
984 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
985 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
989 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
992 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
993 empty files. Closes: #490937
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
997 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1003 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1010 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1013 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1014 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1015 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1016 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1021 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1023 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1024 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1025 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1026 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1030 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1033 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1034 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1035 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1036 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1037 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1041 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1048 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1051 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1052 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1053 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1054 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1055 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1056 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1057 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1058 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1059 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1063 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1066 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1067 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1068 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1069 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1071 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1072 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1073 breaking backwards compatibility.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1077 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1080 message in perl 5.10.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1084 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1090 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1093 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1097 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1100 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1104 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1107 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1108 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1109 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1110 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1111 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1112 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1113 logging by dh_listpackages.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1117 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1120 run and there are no packages of that type.
1121 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1122 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1123 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1124 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1126 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1127 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1131 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1134 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1135 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1139 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1142 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1143 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1145 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1146 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1147 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1148 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1149 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1150 planned but not yet implemented.)
1151 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1152 if the Makefile has such a target.
1153 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1154 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1155 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1156 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1157 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1158 but not yet implemented.)
1159 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1160 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1161 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1162 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1163 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1165 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1167 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1168 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1170 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1171 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1172 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1177 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1180 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1181 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1185 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1187 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1188 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1189 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1193 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1199 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1205 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1208 just those installed by the program.
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1212 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1215 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1216 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1220 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1223 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1224 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1225 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1226 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1230 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1233 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1234 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1238 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1241 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1242 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1246 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1249 with policy. Closes: #461392
1250 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1251 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1252 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1253 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1254 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1258 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1261 Closes: #460340, #460351
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1265 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1268 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1269 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1270 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1271 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1275 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1278 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1279 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1280 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1281 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1282 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1283 package build directory won't work.
1284 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1285 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1286 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1287 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1288 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1289 mode. Closes: #459426
1290 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1295 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1298 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1302 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1306 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1307 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1308 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1309 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1310 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1311 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1315 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1318 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1319 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1320 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1321 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1325 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1328 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1329 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1330 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1331 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1332 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1336 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1339 debian/package.triggers files.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1343 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1346 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1350 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1353 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1354 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1355 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1356 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1361 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1364 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1368 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1371 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1372 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1374 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1379 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1383 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1384 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1385 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1389 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1396 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1403 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1406 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1408 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1409 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1410 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1412 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1413 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1414 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1418 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1421 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1422 * Update urls to web page.
1423 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1424 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1425 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1426 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1430 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1433 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1434 - typo in alternatives call
1435 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1437 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1438 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1442 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1445 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1450 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1456 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1462 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1465 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1467 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1468 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1469 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1470 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1471 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1472 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1473 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1474 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1475 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1476 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1477 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1481 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1484 package install. Closes: #415717
1485 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1486 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1487 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1488 script and then remove the python files.
1489 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1490 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1491 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1492 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1493 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1494 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1495 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1496 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1497 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1498 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1499 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1500 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1501 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1505 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Correct typo in french translation
1511 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1512 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1514 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1516 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1517 Closes: #406921, #381940
1518 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1520 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1521 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1522 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1523 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1524 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1525 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1526 specified). Closes: #381851
1527 * Misc minor changes.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1531 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1538 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1539 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1543 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1549 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1550 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1553 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1554 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1556 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1557 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1558 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1559 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1563 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1566 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1569 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1573 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1579 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1585 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1586 a difficult situation.
1587 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1588 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1589 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1590 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1591 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1592 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1593 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1594 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1595 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1596 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1600 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Non-maintainer upload.
1603 * Update of dh_python
1604 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1605 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1607 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1608 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1609 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1610 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1611 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1613 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1615 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Non-maintainer upload.
1618 * Update of dh_python
1619 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1620 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1621 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1622 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1623 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1624 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1625 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1626 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1627 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1628 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1630 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1631 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1632 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1633 the not too-distant future).
1634 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1635 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1636 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1637 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1638 thus made the build fail.
1640 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1642 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Non-maintainer upload.
1645 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1647 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1649 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1652 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1653 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1654 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1655 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1656 package. Closes: #301424
1657 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1658 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1659 fonts). Closes: #372686
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1663 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1669 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1670 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1671 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1672 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1673 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1674 above, but already depends on that.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1678 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1681 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1682 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1683 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1684 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1685 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1689 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1695 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1701 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1702 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1706 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1709 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1713 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1717 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1718 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1719 new version (0.24.1).
1720 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1721 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1724 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1725 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1726 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1727 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1728 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1729 new directory on their own.
1730 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1731 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1735 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1738 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1739 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1740 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1741 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1745 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1748 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1749 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1750 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1751 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1752 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1756 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1762 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1766 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1767 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1771 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1772 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1776 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1778 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1779 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1781 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1782 ignored. Closes: #337664
1784 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1789 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1795 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1800 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1801 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1802 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1803 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1804 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1805 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1806 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1810 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1813 version. Closes: #350607
1814 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1815 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1816 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1817 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1821 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1824 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1825 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1826 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1830 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1837 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1843 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1846 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1850 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1853 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1854 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1855 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1856 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1857 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1858 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1862 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1865 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1866 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1871 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1874 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1878 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1881 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1885 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1888 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1889 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1890 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1891 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1892 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1893 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1897 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1901 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1902 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1903 link. Closes: #346405
1904 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1906 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1907 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1908 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1909 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1910 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1911 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1912 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1916 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1923 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1929 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1932 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1936 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1939 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1944 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1948 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1949 installed. Closes: #342033
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1953 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1956 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1957 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1958 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1963 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1969 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1975 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1979 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1980 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1981 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1985 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1988 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1993 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2000 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2006 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2009 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2010 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2011 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2012 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2013 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2014 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2015 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2017 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2021 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2024 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2025 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2029 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2032 in standard man dirs.
2033 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2037 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2043 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2046 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2051 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2058 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2065 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2068 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2069 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2073 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2076 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2077 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2078 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2080 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2082 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2088 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2097 mode. Closes: #324161
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2101 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2104 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2105 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2106 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2107 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2112 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2115 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2116 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2117 is necesary for sanity.
2118 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2119 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2124 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2126 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2127 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2131 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2134 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2138 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2144 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2147 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2148 released, so use at your own risk.
2149 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2150 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2152 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2153 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2154 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2155 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2156 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2157 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2158 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2159 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2160 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2161 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2162 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2163 including twice per config file line now..
2164 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2165 and simplfy the rules file.
2166 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2167 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2168 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2170 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2171 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2178 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2182 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2185 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2189 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2192 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2196 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2199 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2200 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2201 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2202 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2203 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2204 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2208 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2211 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2212 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2213 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2218 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2221 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2222 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2227 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2230 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2231 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2232 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2237 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2240 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2241 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2242 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2246 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2252 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2259 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2262 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2263 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2264 unknown. Closes: #282924
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2268 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2275 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Spanish man page updates.
2278 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2283 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2289 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2292 * dh_desktop: reindent
2293 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2294 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2298 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2304 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2306 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2310 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2312 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2316 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2319 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2320 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2324 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2330 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2346 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2350 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2353 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2354 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2355 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2356 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2357 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2358 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2360 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2361 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2362 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2363 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2364 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2365 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2366 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2367 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2368 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2369 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2370 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2371 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2372 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2373 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2374 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2375 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2379 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2386 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2389 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2393 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2396 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2403 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2407 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2410 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2414 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2420 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2426 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2432 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2435 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2436 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2437 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2441 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2444 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2448 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2451 but occasionally right and necessary.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2455 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2458 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2459 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2460 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2461 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2462 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2466 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2469 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2471 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2472 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2473 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2474 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2475 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2476 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2477 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2478 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2479 postinst scripts for udebs.
2480 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2484 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2487 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2489 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2490 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2494 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2500 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2507 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2514 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2517 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2521 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2524 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2528 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2531 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2534 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2535 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2539 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2545 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2548 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2552 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2555 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2556 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2557 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2559 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2561 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2562 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2563 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2567 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2570 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2575 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2578 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2579 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2580 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2585 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2591 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2597 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2600 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2601 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2602 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2603 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2604 associated -dbg packages.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2611 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2618 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2622 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2625 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2629 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2632 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2637 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2640 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2644 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2647 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2652 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2655 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2659 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2663 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2664 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2665 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2666 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2667 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2668 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2669 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2670 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2671 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2672 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2676 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2679 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2684 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2687 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2688 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2692 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2695 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2696 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2701 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2704 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2708 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2711 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2715 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2718 out section number. Closes: #204731
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2722 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2729 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2735 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2741 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2744 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2745 removal. Closes: #204286
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2749 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2752 renaming. Closes: #203548
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2756 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2759 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2760 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2764 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2770 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2776 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2782 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2785 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2786 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2787 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2791 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2794 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2795 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2799 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2805 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2812 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2815 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2820 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2823 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2830 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2832 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2833 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2837 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2840 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2845 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2848 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2852 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2858 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2860 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2864 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2867 it break hard links (see #188663).
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2871 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2874 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2878 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2884 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2888 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2889 debconf-mergetemplates
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2893 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2896 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2900 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2903 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2907 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2910 * Update debhelper(1).
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2914 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2917 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2918 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2919 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2920 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2921 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2925 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2928 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2929 the shell. Closes: #178524
2930 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2934 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2937 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2941 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2944 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2948 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2951 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2952 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2953 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2954 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2959 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2962 files from installation.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2966 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2969 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2970 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2974 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2977 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2981 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2984 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2988 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2994 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3000 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3004 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3005 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3007 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3011 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3014 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3015 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3016 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3017 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3021 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3024 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3028 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3031 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3032 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3036 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3040 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3045 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3051 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3055 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3056 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3057 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3062 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3065 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3066 practice. Closes: #163303
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3070 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3076 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3083 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3086 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3088 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3089 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3090 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3091 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3092 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3096 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3099 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3104 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3110 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3117 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3120 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3125 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3131 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3137 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3143 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3150 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3153 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3154 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3155 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3156 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3161 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3167 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3174 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3177 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3178 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3182 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3185 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3186 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3187 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3188 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3189 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3193 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3196 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3198 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3203 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3206 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3210 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3213 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3214 right thing. Closes: #150644
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3218 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Stupid, evil typo.
3221 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3225 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3232 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3235 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3236 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3241 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3247 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3250 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3254 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3257 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3258 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3263 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3266 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3270 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3276 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3279 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3280 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3284 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3290 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Removing perl warning message.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3296 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3299 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3300 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3301 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3302 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3303 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3304 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3305 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3306 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3310 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3316 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3323 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3326 debconf-mergetemplate.
3327 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3328 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3332 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3335 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3336 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3337 dh_install, which ...
3338 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3339 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3340 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3341 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3342 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3343 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3344 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3345 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3346 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3347 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3348 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3349 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3350 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3351 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3352 other minor changes.
3353 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3354 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3355 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3356 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3357 course there's -X ..)
3358 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3359 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3360 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3362 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3363 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3364 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3365 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3366 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3371 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3377 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3380 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3384 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3390 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3396 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3402 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3408 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3411 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3412 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3413 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3414 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3416 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3417 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3421 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3427 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3430 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3434 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3437 upset. Closes: #131322
3439 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3441 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3444 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3445 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3446 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3447 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3448 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3449 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3450 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3451 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3452 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3453 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3454 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3455 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3456 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3457 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3458 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3460 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3464 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3467 - Better indenting of generated code.
3468 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3472 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3476 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3477 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3478 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3479 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3480 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3481 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3482 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3486 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3489 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3493 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3496 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3497 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3498 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3499 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3500 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3501 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3502 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3503 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3504 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3505 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3506 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3507 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3508 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3509 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3510 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3515 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3521 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3524 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3525 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3529 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3532 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3533 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3537 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3543 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3546 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3547 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3548 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3549 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3550 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3555 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3561 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3564 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3568 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3571 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3576 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3582 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3585 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3589 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3595 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3599 Also some indentation fixes.
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3603 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3606 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3607 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3608 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3609 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3610 Closes: #106514, #85520
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3614 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3620 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3626 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3632 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3638 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3644 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3647 change it in debhelper v4..
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3651 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3657 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3660 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3664 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3667 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3671 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3677 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3680 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3681 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3682 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3683 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3684 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3685 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3686 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3687 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3688 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3689 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3690 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3691 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3695 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3698 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3702 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3709 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3712 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3713 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3714 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3715 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3716 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3717 program those options go to. So, for example,
3718 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3719 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3720 something complex. Closes: #89311
3721 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3725 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3728 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3729 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3730 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3734 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3737 through loop. Closes: #98598
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3741 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Missing semi-colon.
3744 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3745 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3749 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3752 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3753 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3754 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3758 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3761 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3762 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3766 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3769 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3773 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3776 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3777 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3781 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3784 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3785 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3786 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3790 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3793 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3794 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3795 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3799 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3802 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3806 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3812 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3818 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3824 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3830 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3833 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3837 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3840 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3841 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3842 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3843 followed. Closes: #85483
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3847 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3849 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3850 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3851 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3855 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3858 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3859 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3860 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3861 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3862 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3863 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3864 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3865 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3866 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3867 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3868 Closes: #88464, #77743
3869 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3870 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3871 us to deal with that gracefully.
3872 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3874 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3875 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3876 a while, Closes: #51225
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3880 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3886 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3889 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3893 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3897 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3902 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3905 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3906 don't make packlist files.
3907 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3908 debhelper coding standards.
3909 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3910 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3914 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3917 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3921 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3924 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3925 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3926 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3927 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3928 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3929 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3930 but is mildly deprecated.
3931 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3932 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3933 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3934 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3935 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3936 switching to statoverrides..
3937 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3938 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3939 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3940 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3941 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3942 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3944 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3945 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3946 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3947 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3948 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3949 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3950 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3951 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3952 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3954 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3955 variable names, pod man pages).
3956 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3957 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3958 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3959 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3960 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3961 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3962 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3966 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3972 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3979 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3982 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3986 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3988 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3989 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3990 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3994 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3996 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3997 they were previously ignored.
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4001 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4003 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4004 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4008 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4010 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4011 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4012 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4016 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4018 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4022 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4024 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4025 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4029 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4031 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4032 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4033 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4034 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4035 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4036 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4037 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4038 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4039 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4040 it is an obsolete program.
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4044 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4046 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4050 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4054 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4056 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4060 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4062 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4064 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4066 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4070 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4076 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * typo: Closes, #78567
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4082 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4088 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4094 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4097 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4098 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4099 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4100 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4101 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4105 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4108 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4113 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4116 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4117 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4118 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4119 backwards-compatibility.
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4123 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4126 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4127 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4128 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4129 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4130 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4131 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4133 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4134 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4135 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4137 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4139 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4140 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4141 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4142 should now be raised to severity important..
4143 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4144 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4148 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4151 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4156 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4162 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4168 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4174 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4181 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4184 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4185 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4186 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4187 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4191 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4197 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4200 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4201 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4202 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4203 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4204 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4205 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4210 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4213 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4217 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4223 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4226 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4231 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4234 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4235 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4236 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4237 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4241 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4245 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4248 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4251 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4252 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4255 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4257 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4258 the TODO entry about it.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4272 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4273 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4280 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4281 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4282 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4283 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4287 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4293 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4300 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4303 (this appears to be logal).
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4307 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4310 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4311 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4312 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4313 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4317 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4323 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4326 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4327 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4328 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4329 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4333 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4339 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4342 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4346 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4353 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4356 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4357 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4358 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4363 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4370 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4376 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4379 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4380 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4381 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4382 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4383 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4384 notice until v2 is complete.
4385 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4386 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4387 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4388 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4389 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4390 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4392 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4393 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4394 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4395 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4405 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4412 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4415 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4419 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4426 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4429 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4430 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4431 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4432 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4437 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4440 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4441 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4442 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4447 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4450 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4451 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4455 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4458 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4462 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4465 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4469 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4476 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4479 depend on the build and install targets.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4483 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4486 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4490 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4497 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4503 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4509 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4512 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4513 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4514 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4515 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4516 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4517 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4519 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4520 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4521 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4522 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4523 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4524 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4525 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4529 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4535 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4541 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4544 right place. Closes: #55065
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4548 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4555 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4558 * Copyright date updates.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4562 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4565 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4570 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4576 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4583 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4589 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4595 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4601 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4604 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4605 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4606 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4607 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4608 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4609 bits until all files have been registered.
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4613 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_installmanpages:
4616 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4617 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4618 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4619 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4620 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4621 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4622 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4623 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4624 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4625 otherwise change the result at all.
4627 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4628 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4629 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4630 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4631 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4636 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4642 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4645 act on files that don't exist.
4646 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4647 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4648 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4650 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4651 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4652 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4653 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4657 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4663 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4669 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4672 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4676 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4679 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4681 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4682 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4683 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4687 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4690 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4691 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4692 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4693 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4694 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4695 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4696 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4698 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4700 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4704 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4711 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4717 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4726 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4730 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4736 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4742 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4745 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4746 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4747 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4748 I made some changes, though:
4749 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4750 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4751 that is a clear violation of policy.
4752 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4753 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4754 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4755 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4756 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4757 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4758 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4759 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4760 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4762 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4766 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4772 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4775 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4779 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4782 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4783 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4788 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4794 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4801 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4804 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4805 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4806 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4807 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4808 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4809 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4810 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4814 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4820 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4824 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4825 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4829 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4835 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4838 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4842 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4845 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4846 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4850 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4852 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4857 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4861 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4865 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4868 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4869 for the dependancies to be generated.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4873 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4876 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4880 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4883 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4884 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4885 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4890 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4893 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4894 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4898 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4904 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4910 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4913 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4917 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4923 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4926 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4927 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4928 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4929 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4930 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4931 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4932 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4933 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4934 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4935 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4936 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4937 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4941 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4944 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4945 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4947 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4948 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4949 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4950 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4951 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4952 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4954 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4955 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4959 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4962 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4966 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4973 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4976 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4981 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4984 for building debhelper.
4985 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4989 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4996 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4999 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5003 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5006 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5007 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5008 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5009 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5010 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5011 it's always available.
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5015 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5018 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5019 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5020 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5024 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5027 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5028 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5032 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5038 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5041 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5045 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5051 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5054 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5055 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5056 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5060 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5063 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5068 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5071 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5072 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5074 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5075 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5079 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5085 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5091 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5094 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5098 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5101 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5102 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5104 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5108 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5111 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5112 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5113 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5117 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5120 things if CDPATH is set.
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5124 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5130 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5133 seems to make sense for the transition.
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5137 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5140 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5145 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5148 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5149 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5153 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5155 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5156 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5160 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5163 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5164 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5165 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5166 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5170 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5176 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5179 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5180 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5181 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5182 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5183 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5184 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5185 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5186 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5187 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5188 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5193 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5196 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5197 * README: mention doc/v2
5198 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5199 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5203 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5205 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5206 be using this script RSN.
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5210 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5213 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5214 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5215 more than 1 init script.
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5219 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5222 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5226 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * Changed perl version detection.
5229 * Changed call to find.
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5233 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5236 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5238 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5243 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * Really include dh_installpam.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5249 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5252 * Wrote man page for same.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5256 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5259 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5260 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5265 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5272 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5275 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5276 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5277 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5278 x bit was being set!
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5282 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5285 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5286 well. (Closes: 38900)
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5290 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5293 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5294 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5298 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5304 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5311 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5317 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5320 help from Julian Gilbey.
5321 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5322 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5323 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5324 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5325 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5326 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5327 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5332 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5338 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5345 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5351 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5357 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5360 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5364 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5367 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5371 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5374 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5378 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5384 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5387 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5391 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5397 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5403 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5406 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5407 may be deleted. (#35845)
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5411 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * Various man page enhancements.
5414 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5419 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5421 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5422 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5423 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5427 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5430 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5431 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5432 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5434 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5435 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5440 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5442 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5446 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * Another very minor typo fix.
5450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5452 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5454 * Very minor typo fix.
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5458 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5461 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5462 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5466 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5472 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5475 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5476 variables properly (#34850).
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5480 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5486 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5489 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5490 (automatically generated by build process).
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5494 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5496 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5500 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5503 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5504 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5506 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5510 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5513 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5517 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * README: minor typo fix.
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5523 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5526 leave it at that. :-)
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5530 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5536 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5542 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5545 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5546 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5547 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5551 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5554 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5558 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5561 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5565 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5568 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5569 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5570 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5571 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5575 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5578 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5579 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5580 Craig Small for spotting this.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5584 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5587 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5588 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5592 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5598 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5601 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5605 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5607 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5608 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5609 working on the last version of debhelper.
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5613 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5616 being made. (#23255)
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5620 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5626 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5629 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5633 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5636 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5637 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5638 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5639 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5643 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5646 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5647 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5648 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5649 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5651 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5652 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5654 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5659 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5661 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5665 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5671 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5674 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5675 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5676 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5677 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5678 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5679 suidregister actually supports it.
5680 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5681 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5685 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5692 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5695 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5696 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5697 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5698 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5699 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5700 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5701 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5705 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5707 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5708 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5712 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5715 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5716 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5717 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5718 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5722 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5725 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5727 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5728 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5729 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5730 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5731 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5732 effect, either. (#30118)
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5736 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5742 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5745 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5746 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5750 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5752 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5756 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5758 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5759 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5760 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5761 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5762 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5766 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5769 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5770 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5774 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5780 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5783 packages, painlessly.
5785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5787 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5789 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5793 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5795 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5799 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5805 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * The perl conversion is complete.
5809 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5811 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5812 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5813 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5818 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5821 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5822 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5823 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5827 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5830 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5832 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5834 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5835 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5839 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5841 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5842 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5843 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5847 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5853 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5855 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5856 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5857 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5858 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5859 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5860 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5864 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5867 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5868 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5869 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5870 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5874 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5877 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5881 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5884 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5885 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5886 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5887 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5888 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5889 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5890 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5891 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5895 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5897 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5901 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5903 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5904 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5905 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5906 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5911 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5914 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5918 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5921 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5925 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5928 sections of shared libraries.
5929 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5930 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5931 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5932 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5933 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5934 things you don't want them to.
5935 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5936 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5940 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5943 shared libraries. (#26414)
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5947 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5949 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5950 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5951 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5952 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5956 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5960 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5962 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5963 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5964 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5965 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5966 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5970 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5973 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5977 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5980 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5981 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5986 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5989 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5993 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5996 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5997 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5998 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5999 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6000 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6002 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6003 remove debian/files properly.
6004 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6005 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6006 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6007 * Removed bogus menu file.
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6011 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6014 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6018 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6020 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6021 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6022 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6023 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6024 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6025 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6026 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6030 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6032 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6033 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6034 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6035 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6036 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6040 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6042 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6047 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6049 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6050 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6051 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6053 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6054 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6055 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6056 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6057 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6058 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6062 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6064 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6065 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6066 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6067 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6068 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6069 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6070 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6071 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6072 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6073 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6074 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6075 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6076 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6077 passed any switches.
6078 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6082 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6084 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6085 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6086 at all for a long while.
6087 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6088 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6089 large chunks in the process.
6090 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6091 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6092 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6097 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6099 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6100 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6102 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6107 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6110 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6111 that don't always have the same files in them.
6112 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6113 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6114 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6118 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6122 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6123 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6124 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6125 updating 27 man pages.
6126 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6127 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6128 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6129 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6130 programs act on. (#25247)
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6134 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6138 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6139 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6140 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6141 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6142 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6143 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6148 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6150 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6155 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6157 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6162 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6164 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6165 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6169 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6171 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6175 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6177 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6178 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6179 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6180 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6181 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6182 package by accident.
6183 * Is version 1.0 next?
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6187 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6189 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6190 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6191 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6195 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6197 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6198 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6199 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6200 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6201 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6202 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6204 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6209 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6211 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6212 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6213 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6217 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6220 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6224 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6226 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6227 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6228 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6233 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6235 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6239 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6241 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6242 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6243 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6248 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6250 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6254 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6256 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6257 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6258 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6259 past week. Thanks, guys!
6261 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6262 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6263 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6264 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6265 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6266 would do in the same situation.
6267 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6268 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6270 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6272 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6273 permissions changed.
6274 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6275 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6276 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6277 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6278 files are treated identically.
6279 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6280 * Minor man page fixes.
6281 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6282 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6283 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6287 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6289 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6290 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6291 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6292 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6293 use -X multiple times, too.
6294 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6295 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6299 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6301 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6302 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6303 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6307 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6309 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6310 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6314 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6316 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6317 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6318 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6319 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6320 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6321 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6322 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6323 shape if you're starting a new package.
6325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6327 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6329 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6330 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6334 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6336 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6337 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6338 because of missing symlinks.
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6342 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6344 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6348 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6351 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6352 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6353 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6354 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6355 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6357 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6358 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6362 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6364 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6365 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6366 to be changed after the fact :-)
6367 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6371 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6373 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6374 no version string after the -V.
6376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6378 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6380 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6381 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6386 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6388 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6389 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6393 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6395 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6396 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6397 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6398 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6399 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6400 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6401 I always welcome corrections!
6403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6405 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6407 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6411 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6414 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6415 * Documented this new switch.
6417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6419 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6421 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6422 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6423 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6424 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6425 no packages use the old behavior.
6427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6429 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6431 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6432 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6433 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6437 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6440 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6444 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6446 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6450 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6452 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6453 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6457 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6459 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6460 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6461 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6462 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6466 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6468 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6472 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6474 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6475 into the source package by accident.
6477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6479 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6481 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6482 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6483 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6484 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6485 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6486 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6487 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6492 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6494 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6496 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6497 inspired to implement some of it.
6498 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6502 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6504 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6505 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6509 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6512 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6513 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6517 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6520 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6521 have done.) (#17598)
6523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6525 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6527 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6531 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6533 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6537 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6539 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6540 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6544 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6546 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6547 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6548 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6552 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6554 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6555 argument processor in perl.
6556 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6557 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6558 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6559 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6563 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6565 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6566 type directories. (#16933)
6567 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6568 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6569 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6570 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6571 are supported. (#16935)
6572 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6577 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6579 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6580 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6584 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6586 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6588 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6589 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6590 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6591 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6592 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6593 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6597 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6599 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6600 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6601 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6603 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6604 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6605 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6606 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6607 a given package, or -i or -a.
6608 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6609 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6610 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6611 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6612 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6613 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6614 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6615 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6616 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6618 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6619 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6620 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6624 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6626 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6627 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6628 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6633 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6635 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6636 does not have a section.
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6640 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6642 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6643 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6644 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6645 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6649 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6651 * Fixed typo #16215.
6653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6655 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6657 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6658 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6659 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6660 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6661 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6662 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6667 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6669 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6670 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6671 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6672 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6677 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6679 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6683 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6685 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6689 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6691 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6692 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6693 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6694 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6695 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6696 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6697 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6701 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6703 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6707 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6709 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6710 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6714 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6716 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6717 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6718 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6719 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6723 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6725 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6726 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6730 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6732 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6736 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6738 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6739 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6743 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6745 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6746 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6750 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6752 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6756 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6758 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6759 postinst, postrm, etc.
6761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6763 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6765 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6769 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6771 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6772 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6773 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6774 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6775 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6776 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6780 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6782 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6783 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6784 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6788 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6790 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6791 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6795 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6797 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6798 installing package files into.
6799 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6804 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6806 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6808 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6812 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6814 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6818 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6820 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6821 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6825 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6827 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6828 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6829 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6830 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6831 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6835 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6837 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6838 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6839 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6840 multiple binary packages.
6841 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6842 should rebuild them with this version.
6843 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6847 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6849 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6850 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6854 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6856 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6857 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6861 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6863 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6864 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6865 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6866 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6867 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6868 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6869 debian/README.debian.
6870 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6871 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6872 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6873 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6874 in a few situations.)
6876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6878 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6880 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6884 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6886 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6890 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6892 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6893 * Fixed several man pages.
6895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6897 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6899 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6900 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6901 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6905 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6907 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6908 is ready for general use.
6909 * Added man pages for all commands.
6910 * Multiple binary package support.
6911 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6912 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6913 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6915 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6916 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6917 auto-installed as parameters.
6918 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6920 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6923 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6924 the package build directory it is to act on.
6925 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6926 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6927 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6931 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6933 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6934 ready to replace debstd.
6936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400