1 debhelper (8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
5 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
6 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
7 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
8 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
9 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
11 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
12 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
13 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
14 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
15 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
16 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
17 (Thanks, David Prévot)
18 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
19 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
20 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
21 target fails. Closes: #601037
22 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
24 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
25 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
26 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
28 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
30 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
31 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
33 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
34 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
35 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
39 * update french translation.
40 * Fix french misspelling.
41 * French translation update after massive man page typography
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
45 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
51 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
55 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
57 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
61 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
63 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
64 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
65 introduced by the fix to #527990.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
69 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
72 changes are planned for that mode.
73 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
74 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
75 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
76 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
77 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
78 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
79 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
80 (genesis) still uses them.
81 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
82 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
83 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
84 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
85 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
86 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
87 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
88 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
89 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
90 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
91 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
92 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
93 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
94 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
95 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
96 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
97 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
98 commands. (See #570039)
99 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
101 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
106 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
110 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
111 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
112 in control file or debhelper config files.
113 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
117 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
120 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
121 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
125 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
128 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
132 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
135 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
136 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
140 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Updated French translation.
143 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
144 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
145 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
146 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
148 * Typo. Closes: #571968
149 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
150 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
151 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
152 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
153 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
154 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
155 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
156 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
157 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
159 * dh: Improve documentation.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
163 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
165 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
166 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
167 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
171 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
174 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
178 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
181 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
185 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
188 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
189 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
190 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
191 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
192 options that they do not support.
193 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
194 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
195 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
196 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
197 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
198 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
203 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
207 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
208 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
209 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
210 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
211 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
212 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
213 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
214 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
215 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
219 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
222 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
223 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
224 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
225 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
229 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Typo. Closes: #558654
232 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
233 installed. Closes: #558782
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
237 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
240 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
241 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
242 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
243 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
244 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
248 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
250 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
251 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
252 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
253 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
257 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
260 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
261 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
265 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
267 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
271 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
273 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
274 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
275 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
276 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
277 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
278 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
279 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
280 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
281 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
282 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
283 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
284 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
285 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
286 time soon.) Closes: #554509
287 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
289 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
290 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
291 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
292 document id. Closes: #555677
293 * Typo. Closes: #555659
294 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
295 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
296 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
297 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
299 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
300 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
301 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
306 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
309 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
310 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
311 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
312 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
313 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
314 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
315 translation (#494300 part 2)
318 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
320 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
321 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
322 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
323 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
324 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
328 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
331 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
332 (It was only run once due to logging.)
333 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
334 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
335 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
336 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
337 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
338 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
339 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
340 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
341 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
342 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
346 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
350 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
353 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
354 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
358 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
361 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
362 flag with arch all/any packages.
363 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
364 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
365 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
366 situation. Closes: #540794
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
370 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
374 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
375 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
376 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
377 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
378 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
381 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
382 the default. Closes: #538201
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
387 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
391 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
392 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
393 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
394 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
395 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
397 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
398 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
399 * Above Closes: #491117
400 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
405 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
411 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
412 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
413 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
417 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
420 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
421 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
422 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
423 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
424 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
429 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
432 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
433 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
437 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
439 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
443 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
445 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
446 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
448 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
449 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
450 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
454 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
456 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
457 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
461 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
467 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
469 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
470 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
471 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
476 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
478 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
482 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
485 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
486 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
487 created by using `python' first during build and install.
489 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
494 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
496 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
500 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
502 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
503 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
507 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
509 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
513 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
515 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
519 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
521 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
522 contributed by Modestas Vainius
523 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
524 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
525 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
526 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
527 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
528 that support it. Closes: #480577
529 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
530 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
531 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
533 - Adds support for cmake.
534 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
535 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
537 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
539 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
540 that use them. The options are:
541 --sourcedir, --destdir
542 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
543 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
544 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
545 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
546 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
550 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
556 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
559 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
560 default. Closes: #537140
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
564 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
567 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
568 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
572 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
575 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
579 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
582 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
586 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
588 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
589 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
591 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
592 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
593 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
597 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
600 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
601 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
602 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
606 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
609 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
610 warning or deprecation message.
611 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
612 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
613 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
614 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
615 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
616 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
617 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
618 Closes: #534639, #357434
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
622 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
628 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
631 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
632 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
633 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
634 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
636 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
637 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
638 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
642 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
648 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
655 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
658 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
662 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
666 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
667 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
669 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
670 file support. Closes: #494914
671 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
675 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
678 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
679 parameters. Closes: #527256
680 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
681 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
682 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
686 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
690 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
691 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
692 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
696 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
699 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
700 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
701 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
705 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
708 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
709 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
711 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
712 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
713 by triggers). Closes: #521181
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
717 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
721 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
725 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
728 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
729 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
730 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
731 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
736 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
742 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
745 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
746 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
747 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
748 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
749 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
751 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
752 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
753 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
754 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
755 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
756 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
760 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
762 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
763 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
764 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
765 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
766 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
767 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
769 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
773 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
775 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
779 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
781 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
782 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
783 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
784 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
785 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
786 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
787 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
788 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
789 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
790 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
791 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
795 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
797 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
798 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
800 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
801 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
802 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
803 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
805 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
806 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
810 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
812 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
813 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
814 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
815 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
816 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
817 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
818 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
820 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
821 that uses them. Affected options are:
822 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
823 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
824 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
825 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
826 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
827 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
828 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
829 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
830 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
831 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
832 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
833 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
837 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
844 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
850 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
852 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
853 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
855 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
856 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
857 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
858 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
859 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
861 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
863 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
864 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
865 rules (see bug #509756).
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
869 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
872 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
875 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
876 * Typo. Closes: #493062
877 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
878 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
882 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
885 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
886 empty files. Closes: #490937
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
890 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
896 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
903 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
906 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
907 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
908 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
909 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
914 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
916 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
917 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
918 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
919 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
923 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
926 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
927 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
928 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
929 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
930 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
934 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
941 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
943 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
944 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
945 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
946 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
947 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
948 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
949 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
950 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
951 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
952 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
956 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
959 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
960 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
961 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
962 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
964 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
965 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
966 breaking backwards compatibility.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
970 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
973 message in perl 5.10.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
977 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
983 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Convert copyright file to new format.
986 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
990 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
993 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
997 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1000 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1001 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1002 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1003 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1004 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1005 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1006 logging by dh_listpackages.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1010 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1013 run and there are no packages of that type.
1014 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1015 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1016 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1017 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1019 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1020 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1024 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1027 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1028 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1032 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1035 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1036 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1038 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1039 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1040 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1041 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1042 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1043 planned but not yet implemented.)
1044 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1045 if the Makefile has such a target.
1046 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1047 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1048 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1049 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1050 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1051 but not yet implemented.)
1052 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1053 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1054 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1055 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1056 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1058 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1060 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1061 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1063 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1064 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1065 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1070 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1073 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1074 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1078 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1080 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1081 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1082 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1086 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1092 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1098 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1101 just those installed by the program.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1105 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1108 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1109 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1113 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1116 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1117 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1118 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1119 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1123 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1126 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1127 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1131 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1134 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1135 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1139 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1142 with policy. Closes: #461392
1143 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1144 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1145 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1146 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1147 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1151 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1154 Closes: #460340, #460351
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1158 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1161 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1162 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1163 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1164 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1168 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1171 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1172 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1173 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1174 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1175 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1176 package build directory won't work.
1177 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1178 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1179 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1180 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1181 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1182 mode. Closes: #459426
1183 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1188 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1191 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1195 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1199 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1200 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1201 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1202 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1203 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1204 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1208 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1211 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1212 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1213 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1214 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1218 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1221 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1222 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1223 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1224 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1225 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1229 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1232 debian/package.triggers files.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1236 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1239 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1243 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1246 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1247 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1248 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1249 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1254 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1257 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1261 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1264 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1265 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1267 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1272 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1276 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1277 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1278 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1282 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1289 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1296 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1299 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1301 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1302 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1303 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1305 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1306 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1307 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1311 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1314 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1315 * Update urls to web page.
1316 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1317 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1318 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1319 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1323 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1326 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1327 - typo in alternatives call
1328 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1330 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1331 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1335 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1338 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1343 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1349 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1355 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1358 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1360 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1361 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1362 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1363 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1364 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1365 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1366 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1367 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1368 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1369 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1370 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1374 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1377 package install. Closes: #415717
1378 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1379 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1380 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1381 script and then remove the python files.
1382 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1383 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1384 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1385 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1386 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1387 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1388 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1389 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1390 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1391 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1392 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1393 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1394 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1398 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Correct typo in french translation
1404 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1405 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1407 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1409 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1410 Closes: #406921, #381940
1411 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1413 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1414 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1415 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1416 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1417 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1418 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1419 specified). Closes: #381851
1420 * Misc minor changes.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1424 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1431 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1432 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1436 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1442 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1443 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1446 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1447 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1449 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1450 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1451 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1452 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1456 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1459 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1462 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1466 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1472 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1478 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1479 a difficult situation.
1480 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1481 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1482 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1483 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1484 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1485 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1486 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1487 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1488 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1489 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1493 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Non-maintainer upload.
1496 * Update of dh_python
1497 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1498 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1500 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1501 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1502 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1503 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1504 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1506 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1508 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Non-maintainer upload.
1511 * Update of dh_python
1512 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1513 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1514 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1515 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1516 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1517 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1518 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1519 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1520 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1521 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1523 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1524 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1525 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1526 the not too-distant future).
1527 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1528 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1529 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1530 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1531 thus made the build fail.
1533 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1535 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Non-maintainer upload.
1538 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1540 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1542 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1545 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1546 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1547 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1548 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1549 package. Closes: #301424
1550 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1551 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1552 fonts). Closes: #372686
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1556 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1562 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1563 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1564 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1565 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1566 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1567 above, but already depends on that.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1571 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1574 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1575 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1576 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1577 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1578 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1582 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1588 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1594 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1595 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1599 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1602 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1606 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1610 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1611 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1612 new version (0.24.1).
1613 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1614 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1617 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1618 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1619 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1620 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1621 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1622 new directory on their own.
1623 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1624 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1628 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1631 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1632 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1633 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1634 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1638 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1641 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1642 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1643 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1644 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1645 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1649 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1655 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1659 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1660 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1664 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1665 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1669 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1671 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1672 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1674 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1675 ignored. Closes: #337664
1677 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1682 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1688 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1693 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1694 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1695 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1696 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1697 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1698 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1699 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1703 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1706 version. Closes: #350607
1707 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1708 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1709 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1710 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1714 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1717 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1718 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1719 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1723 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1730 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1736 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1739 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1743 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1746 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1747 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1748 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1749 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1750 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1751 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1755 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1758 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1759 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1764 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1767 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1771 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1774 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1778 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1781 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1782 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1783 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1784 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1785 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1786 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1790 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1794 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1795 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1796 link. Closes: #346405
1797 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1799 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1800 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1801 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1802 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1803 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1804 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1805 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1809 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1816 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1822 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1825 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1829 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1832 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1837 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1841 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1842 installed. Closes: #342033
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1846 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1849 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1850 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1851 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1856 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1862 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1868 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1872 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1873 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1874 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1878 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1881 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1886 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1893 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1899 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1902 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1903 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1904 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1905 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1906 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1907 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1908 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1910 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1914 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1917 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1918 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1925 in standard man dirs.
1926 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1930 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1936 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1939 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1944 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1951 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1958 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1961 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1962 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1966 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1969 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1970 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1971 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1973 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1975 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1981 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1990 mode. Closes: #324161
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1994 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1997 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1998 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1999 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2000 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2005 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2008 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2009 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2010 is necesary for sanity.
2011 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2012 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2017 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2019 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2020 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2024 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2027 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2031 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2037 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2040 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2041 released, so use at your own risk.
2042 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2043 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2045 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2046 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2047 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2048 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2049 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2050 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2051 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2052 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2053 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2054 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2055 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2056 including twice per config file line now..
2057 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2058 and simplfy the rules file.
2059 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2060 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2061 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2063 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2064 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2068 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2071 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2075 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2078 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2082 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2085 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2089 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2092 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2093 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2094 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2095 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2096 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2097 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2101 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2104 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2105 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2106 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2111 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2114 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2115 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2120 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2123 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2124 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2125 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2130 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2133 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2134 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2135 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2139 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2145 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2152 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2155 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2156 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2157 unknown. Closes: #282924
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2161 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2168 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Spanish man page updates.
2171 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2176 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2182 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2185 * dh_desktop: reindent
2186 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2187 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2197 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2199 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2203 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2205 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2209 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2212 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2213 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2217 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2229 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2236 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2239 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2243 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2246 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2247 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2248 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2249 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2250 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2251 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2253 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2254 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2255 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2256 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2257 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2258 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2259 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2260 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2261 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2262 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2263 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2264 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2265 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2266 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2267 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2268 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2272 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2279 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2282 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2286 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2289 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2293 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2296 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2300 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2303 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2307 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2313 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2319 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2325 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2328 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2329 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2330 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2334 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2337 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2341 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2344 but occasionally right and necessary.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2348 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2351 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2352 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2353 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2354 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2355 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2359 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2362 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2364 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2365 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2366 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2367 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2368 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2369 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2370 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2371 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2372 postinst scripts for udebs.
2373 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2377 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2380 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2382 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2383 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2387 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2393 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2400 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2407 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2410 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2414 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2417 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2421 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2424 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2427 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2428 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2432 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2438 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2441 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2445 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2448 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2449 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2450 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2452 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2454 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2455 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2456 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2460 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2463 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2468 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2471 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2472 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2473 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2478 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2484 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2490 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2493 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2494 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2495 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2496 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2497 associated -dbg packages.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2504 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2511 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2515 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2518 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2525 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2530 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2533 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2537 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2540 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2545 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2548 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2556 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2557 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2558 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2559 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2560 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2561 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2562 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2563 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2564 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2565 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2569 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2572 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2577 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2580 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2581 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2585 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2588 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2589 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2594 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2597 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2604 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2611 out section number. Closes: #204731
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2622 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2628 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2634 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2637 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2638 removal. Closes: #204286
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2642 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2645 renaming. Closes: #203548
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2649 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2652 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2653 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2657 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2663 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2669 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2675 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2678 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2679 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2680 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2684 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2687 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2688 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2692 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2698 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2705 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2708 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2713 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2716 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2720 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2723 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2725 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2726 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2730 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2733 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2738 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2741 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2745 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2751 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2753 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2757 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2760 it break hard links (see #188663).
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2764 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2767 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2771 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2777 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2781 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2782 debconf-mergetemplates
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2786 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2789 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2793 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2796 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2800 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2803 * Update debhelper(1).
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2807 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2810 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2811 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2812 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2813 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2814 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2818 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2821 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2822 the shell. Closes: #178524
2823 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2827 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2830 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2834 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2837 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2841 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2844 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2845 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2846 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2847 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2852 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2855 files from installation.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2859 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2862 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2863 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2867 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2870 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2874 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2877 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2881 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2887 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2893 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2897 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2898 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2900 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2904 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2907 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2908 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2909 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2910 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2914 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2917 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2921 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2924 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2925 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2929 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2933 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2938 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2944 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2948 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2949 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2950 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2955 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2958 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2959 practice. Closes: #163303
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2963 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2979 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2981 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2982 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2983 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2984 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2985 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2992 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2997 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3003 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3010 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3013 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3018 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3024 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3030 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3036 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3043 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3046 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3047 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3048 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3049 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3060 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3067 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3070 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3071 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3075 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3078 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3079 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3080 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3081 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3082 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3086 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3089 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3091 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3096 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3099 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3103 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3106 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3107 right thing. Closes: #150644
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3111 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Stupid, evil typo.
3114 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3118 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3125 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3128 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3129 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3134 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3140 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3143 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3147 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3150 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3151 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3156 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3159 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3163 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3169 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3172 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3173 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3177 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3183 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Removing perl warning message.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3189 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3192 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3193 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3194 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3195 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3196 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3197 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3198 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3199 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3203 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3209 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3216 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3219 debconf-mergetemplate.
3220 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3221 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3225 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3228 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3229 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3230 dh_install, which ...
3231 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3232 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3233 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3234 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3235 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3236 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3237 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3238 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3239 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3240 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3241 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3242 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3243 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3244 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3245 other minor changes.
3246 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3247 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3248 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3249 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3250 course there's -X ..)
3251 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3252 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3253 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3255 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3256 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3257 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3258 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3259 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3264 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3270 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3273 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3277 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3283 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3289 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3295 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3301 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3304 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3305 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3306 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3307 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3309 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3310 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3314 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3320 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3323 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3327 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3330 upset. Closes: #131322
3332 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3334 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3337 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3338 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3339 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3340 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3341 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3342 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3343 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3344 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3345 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3346 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3347 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3348 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3349 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3350 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3351 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3353 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3357 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3360 - Better indenting of generated code.
3361 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3365 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3369 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3370 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3371 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3372 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3373 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3374 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3375 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3379 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3382 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3386 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3389 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3390 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3391 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3392 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3393 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3394 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3395 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3396 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3397 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3398 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3399 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3400 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3401 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3402 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3403 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3408 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3414 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3417 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3418 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3422 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3425 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3426 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3430 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3436 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3439 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3440 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3441 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3442 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3443 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3448 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3454 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3457 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3461 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3464 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3469 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3475 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3478 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3482 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3488 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3492 Also some indentation fixes.
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3496 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3499 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3500 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3501 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3502 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3503 Closes: #106514, #85520
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3507 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3513 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3519 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3525 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3531 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3537 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3540 change it in debhelper v4..
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3544 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3550 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3553 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3557 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3560 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3564 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3570 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3573 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3574 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3575 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3576 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3577 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3578 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3579 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3580 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3581 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3582 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3583 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3584 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3588 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3591 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3595 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3602 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3605 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3606 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3607 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3608 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3609 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3610 program those options go to. So, for example,
3611 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3612 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3613 something complex. Closes: #89311
3614 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3618 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3621 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3622 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3623 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3627 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3630 through loop. Closes: #98598
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3634 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * Missing semi-colon.
3637 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3638 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3642 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3645 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3646 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3647 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3651 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3654 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3655 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3659 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3662 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3666 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3669 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3670 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3674 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3677 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3678 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3679 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3683 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3686 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3687 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3688 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3692 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3695 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3699 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3705 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3711 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3717 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3723 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3726 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3730 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3733 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3734 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3735 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3736 followed. Closes: #85483
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3740 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3742 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3743 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3744 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3748 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3751 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3752 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3753 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3754 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3755 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3756 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3757 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3758 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3759 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3760 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3761 Closes: #88464, #77743
3762 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3763 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3764 us to deal with that gracefully.
3765 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3767 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3768 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3769 a while, Closes: #51225
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3773 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3779 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3782 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3786 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3790 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3795 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3798 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3799 don't make packlist files.
3800 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3801 debhelper coding standards.
3802 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3803 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3807 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3810 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3814 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3817 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3818 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3819 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3820 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3821 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3822 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3823 but is mildly deprecated.
3824 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3825 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3826 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3827 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3828 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3829 switching to statoverrides..
3830 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3831 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3832 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3833 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3834 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3835 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3837 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3838 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3839 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3840 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3841 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3842 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3843 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3844 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3845 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3847 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3848 variable names, pod man pages).
3849 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3850 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3851 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3852 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3853 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3854 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3855 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3859 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3865 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3872 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3875 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3879 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3881 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3882 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3883 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3887 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3889 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3890 they were previously ignored.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3894 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3896 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3897 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3901 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3903 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3904 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3905 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3909 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3911 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3915 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3917 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3918 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3922 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3924 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3925 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3926 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3927 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3928 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3929 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3930 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3931 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3932 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3933 it is an obsolete program.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3937 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3939 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3943 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3947 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3949 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3953 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3955 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3957 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3959 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3963 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3969 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * typo: Closes, #78567
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3975 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3981 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3987 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3990 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3991 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3992 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3993 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3994 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3998 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4001 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4006 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4009 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4010 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4011 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4012 backwards-compatibility.
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4016 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4019 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4020 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4021 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4022 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4023 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4024 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4026 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4027 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4028 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4030 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4032 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4033 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4034 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4035 should now be raised to severity important..
4036 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4037 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4041 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4044 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4049 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4055 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4061 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4067 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4074 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4077 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4078 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4079 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4080 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4084 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4090 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4093 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4094 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4095 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4096 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4097 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4098 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4103 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4106 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4110 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4116 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4119 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4124 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4127 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4128 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4129 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4130 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4134 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4138 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4141 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4144 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4145 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4148 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4150 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4151 the TODO entry about it.
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4155 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4162 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4165 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4166 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4170 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4173 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4174 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4175 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4176 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4180 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4186 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4193 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4196 (this appears to be logal).
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4200 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4203 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4204 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4205 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4206 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4210 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4216 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4219 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4220 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4221 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4222 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4226 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4235 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4239 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4246 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4249 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4250 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4251 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4256 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4263 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4272 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4273 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4274 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4275 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4276 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4277 notice until v2 is complete.
4278 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4279 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4280 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4281 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4282 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4283 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4285 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4286 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4287 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4288 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4292 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4298 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4305 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4308 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4312 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4319 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4322 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4323 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4324 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4325 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4330 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4333 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4334 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4335 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4340 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4343 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4344 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4348 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4351 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4355 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4358 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4362 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4369 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4372 depend on the build and install targets.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4376 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4379 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4383 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4390 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4396 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4402 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4405 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4406 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4407 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4408 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4409 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4410 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4412 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4413 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4414 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4415 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4416 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4417 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4418 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4422 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4428 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4434 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4437 right place. Closes: #55065
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4441 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4448 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4451 * Copyright date updates.
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4455 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4458 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4463 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4469 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4476 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4482 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4488 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4494 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4497 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4498 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4499 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4500 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4501 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4502 bits until all files have been registered.
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4506 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * dh_installmanpages:
4509 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4510 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4511 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4512 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4513 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4514 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4515 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4516 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4517 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4518 otherwise change the result at all.
4520 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4521 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4522 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4523 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4524 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4529 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4535 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4538 act on files that don't exist.
4539 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4540 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4541 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4543 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4544 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4545 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4546 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4550 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4556 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4562 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4565 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4569 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4572 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4574 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4575 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4576 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4580 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4583 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4584 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4585 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4586 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4587 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4588 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4589 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4591 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4593 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4597 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4604 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4610 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4616 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4619 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4623 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4629 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4635 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4638 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4639 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4640 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4641 I made some changes, though:
4642 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4643 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4644 that is a clear violation of policy.
4645 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4646 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4647 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4648 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4649 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4650 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4651 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4652 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4653 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4655 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4659 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4665 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4668 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4672 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4675 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4676 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4681 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4687 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4694 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4697 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4698 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4699 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4700 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4701 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4702 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4703 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4707 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4713 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4717 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4718 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4722 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4728 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4731 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4735 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4738 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4739 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4743 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4745 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4750 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4754 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4758 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4761 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4762 for the dependancies to be generated.
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4766 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4769 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4773 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4776 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4777 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4778 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4783 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4786 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4787 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4791 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4797 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4803 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4806 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4810 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4816 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4819 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4820 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4821 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4822 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4823 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4824 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4825 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4826 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4827 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4828 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4829 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4830 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4834 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4837 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4838 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4840 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4841 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4842 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4843 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4844 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4845 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4847 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4848 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4852 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4855 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4859 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4866 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4869 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4874 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4877 for building debhelper.
4878 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4882 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4889 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4892 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4896 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4899 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4900 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4901 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4902 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4903 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4904 it's always available.
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4908 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4911 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4912 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4913 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4917 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4920 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4921 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4925 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4931 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4934 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4938 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4944 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4947 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4948 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4949 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4953 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4956 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4961 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4964 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4965 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4967 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4968 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4972 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4978 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4980 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4984 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4987 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4991 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4994 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4995 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4997 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5001 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5004 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5005 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5006 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5010 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5013 things if CDPATH is set.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5017 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5023 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5026 seems to make sense for the transition.
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5030 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5033 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5038 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5041 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5042 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5046 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5049 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5053 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5056 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5057 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5058 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5059 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5063 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5069 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5072 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5073 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5074 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5075 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5076 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5077 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5078 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5079 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5080 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5081 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5086 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5089 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5090 * README: mention doc/v2
5091 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5092 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5096 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5098 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5099 be using this script RSN.
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5103 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5106 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5107 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5108 more than 1 init script.
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5112 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5115 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5119 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * Changed perl version detection.
5122 * Changed call to find.
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5126 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5129 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5131 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5136 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * Really include dh_installpam.
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5142 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5145 * Wrote man page for same.
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5149 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5152 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5153 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5158 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5165 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5168 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5169 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5170 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5171 x bit was being set!
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5175 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5178 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5179 well. (Closes: 38900)
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5183 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5186 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5187 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5191 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5197 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5204 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5210 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5213 help from Julian Gilbey.
5214 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5215 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5216 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5217 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5218 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5219 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5220 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5225 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5231 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5238 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5244 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5250 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5253 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5257 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5260 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5264 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5267 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5271 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5277 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5280 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5284 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5290 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5296 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5299 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5300 may be deleted. (#35845)
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5304 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * Various man page enhancements.
5307 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5312 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5315 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5316 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5320 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5323 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5324 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5325 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5327 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5328 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5333 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5335 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5339 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * Another very minor typo fix.
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5345 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * Very minor typo fix.
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5351 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5354 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5355 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5359 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5365 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5368 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5369 variables properly (#34850).
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5373 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5379 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5382 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5383 (automatically generated by build process).
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5387 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5389 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5393 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5395 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5396 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5397 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5399 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5403 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5406 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5410 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * README: minor typo fix.
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5416 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5419 leave it at that. :-)
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5423 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5429 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5435 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5438 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5439 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5440 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5444 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5447 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5451 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5454 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5458 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5461 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5462 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5463 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5464 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5468 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5471 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5472 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5473 Craig Small for spotting this.
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5477 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5480 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5481 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5485 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5491 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5494 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5498 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5500 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5501 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5502 working on the last version of debhelper.
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5506 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5509 being made. (#23255)
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5513 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5519 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5522 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5526 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5529 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5530 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5531 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5532 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5536 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5539 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5540 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5541 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5542 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5544 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5545 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5547 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5552 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5558 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5564 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5567 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5568 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5569 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5570 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5571 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5572 suidregister actually supports it.
5573 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5574 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5578 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5585 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5588 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5589 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5590 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5591 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5592 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5593 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5594 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5598 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5600 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5601 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5605 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5608 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5609 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5610 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5611 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5615 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5618 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5620 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5621 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5622 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5623 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5624 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5625 effect, either. (#30118)
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5629 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5635 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5638 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5639 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5643 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5649 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5652 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5653 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5654 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5655 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5659 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5661 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5662 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5663 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5667 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5673 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5676 packages, painlessly.
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5680 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5686 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5692 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5698 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * The perl conversion is complete.
5702 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5704 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5705 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5706 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5711 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5714 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5715 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5716 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5720 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5722 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5723 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5725 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5727 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5728 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5732 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5735 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5736 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5740 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5746 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5749 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5750 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5751 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5752 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5753 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5757 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5760 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5761 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5762 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5763 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5767 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5770 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5774 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5777 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5778 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5779 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5780 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5781 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5782 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5783 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5784 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5788 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5794 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5797 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5798 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5799 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5804 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5807 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5811 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5814 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5818 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5821 sections of shared libraries.
5822 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5823 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5824 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5825 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5826 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5827 things you don't want them to.
5828 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5829 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5833 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5836 shared libraries. (#26414)
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5840 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5842 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5843 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5844 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5845 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5849 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5851 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5853 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5855 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5856 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5857 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5858 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5859 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5863 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5866 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5870 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5873 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5874 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5879 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5881 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5882 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5886 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5888 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5889 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5890 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5891 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5892 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5893 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5895 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5896 remove debian/files properly.
5897 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5898 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5899 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5900 * Removed bogus menu file.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5904 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5907 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5911 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5914 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5915 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5916 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5917 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5918 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5919 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5923 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5925 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5926 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5927 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5928 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5929 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5933 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5940 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5943 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5944 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5946 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5947 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5948 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5949 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5950 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5951 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5955 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5958 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5959 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5960 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5961 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5962 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5963 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5964 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5965 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5966 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5967 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5968 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5969 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5970 passed any switches.
5971 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5975 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5978 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5979 at all for a long while.
5980 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5981 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5982 large chunks in the process.
5983 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5984 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5985 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5990 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5992 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5993 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5995 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6000 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6002 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6003 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6004 that don't always have the same files in them.
6005 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6006 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6007 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6011 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6015 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6016 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6017 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6018 updating 27 man pages.
6019 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6020 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6021 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6022 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6023 programs act on. (#25247)
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6027 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6031 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6032 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6033 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6034 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6035 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6036 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6041 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6048 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6055 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6058 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6062 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6064 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6068 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6071 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6072 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6073 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6074 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6075 package by accident.
6076 * Is version 1.0 next?
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6080 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6083 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6084 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6088 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6091 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6092 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6093 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6094 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6095 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6097 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6102 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6105 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6106 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6110 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6113 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6117 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6120 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6121 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6126 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6132 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6135 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6136 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6141 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6147 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6149 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6150 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6151 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6152 past week. Thanks, guys!
6154 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6155 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6156 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6157 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6158 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6159 would do in the same situation.
6160 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6161 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6163 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6165 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6166 permissions changed.
6167 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6168 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6169 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6170 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6171 files are treated identically.
6172 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6173 * Minor man page fixes.
6174 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6175 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6176 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6180 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6182 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6183 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6184 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6185 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6186 use -X multiple times, too.
6187 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6188 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6192 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6194 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6195 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6196 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6200 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6202 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6203 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6207 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6209 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6210 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6211 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6212 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6213 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6214 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6215 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6216 shape if you're starting a new package.
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6220 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6222 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6223 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6227 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6229 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6230 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6231 because of missing symlinks.
6233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6235 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6237 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6241 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6243 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6244 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6245 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6246 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6247 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6248 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6250 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6251 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6255 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6257 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6258 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6259 to be changed after the fact :-)
6260 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6264 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6266 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6267 no version string after the -V.
6269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6271 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6273 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6274 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6279 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6282 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6286 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6289 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6290 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6291 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6292 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6293 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6294 I always welcome corrections!
6296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6298 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6300 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6304 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6306 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6307 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6308 * Documented this new switch.
6310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6312 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6314 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6315 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6316 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6317 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6318 no packages use the old behavior.
6320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6322 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6324 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6325 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6326 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6330 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6333 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6337 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6339 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6343 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6345 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6346 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6350 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6352 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6353 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6354 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6355 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6359 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6361 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6365 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6367 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6368 into the source package by accident.
6370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6372 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6374 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6375 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6376 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6377 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6378 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6379 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6380 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6385 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6387 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6389 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6390 inspired to implement some of it.
6391 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6395 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6397 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6398 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6402 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6404 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6405 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6406 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6410 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6412 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6413 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6414 have done.) (#17598)
6416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6418 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6420 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6424 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6426 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6430 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6432 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6433 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6437 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6440 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6441 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6445 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6447 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6448 argument processor in perl.
6449 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6450 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6451 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6452 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6456 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6458 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6459 type directories. (#16933)
6460 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6461 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6462 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6463 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6464 are supported. (#16935)
6465 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6470 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6472 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6473 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6477 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6479 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6481 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6482 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6483 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6484 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6485 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6486 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6490 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6492 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6493 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6494 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6496 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6497 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6498 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6499 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6500 a given package, or -i or -a.
6501 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6502 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6503 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6504 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6505 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6506 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6507 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6508 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6509 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6511 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6512 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6513 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6517 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6520 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6521 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6526 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6528 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6529 does not have a section.
6531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6533 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6535 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6536 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6537 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6538 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6542 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6544 * Fixed typo #16215.
6546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6548 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6550 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6551 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6552 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6553 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6554 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6555 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6560 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6562 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6563 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6564 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6565 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6570 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6572 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6576 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6578 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6582 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6584 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6585 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6586 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6587 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6588 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6589 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6590 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6594 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6596 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6600 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6602 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6603 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6607 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6609 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6610 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6611 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6612 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6616 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6618 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6619 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6623 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6625 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6629 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6631 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6632 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6636 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6638 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6639 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6643 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6645 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6649 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6651 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6652 postinst, postrm, etc.
6654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6656 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6658 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6662 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6664 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6665 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6666 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6667 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6668 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6669 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6673 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6675 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6676 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6677 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6681 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6683 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6684 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6688 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6690 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6691 installing package files into.
6692 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6697 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6699 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6701 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6705 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6707 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6711 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6713 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6714 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6718 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6720 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6721 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6722 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6723 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6724 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6728 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6730 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6731 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6732 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6733 multiple binary packages.
6734 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6735 should rebuild them with this version.
6736 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6740 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6742 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6743 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6747 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6749 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6750 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6754 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6756 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6757 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6758 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6759 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6760 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6761 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6762 debian/README.debian.
6763 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6764 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6765 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6766 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6767 in a few situations.)
6769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6771 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6773 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6777 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6779 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6783 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6785 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6786 * Fixed several man pages.
6788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6790 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6792 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6793 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6794 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6798 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6800 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6801 is ready for general use.
6802 * Added man pages for all commands.
6803 * Multiple binary package support.
6804 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6805 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6806 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6808 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6809 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6810 auto-installed as parameters.
6811 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6813 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6816 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6817 the package build directory it is to act on.
6818 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6819 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6820 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6824 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6826 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6827 ready to replace debstd.
6829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400