1 debhelper (8.9.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
4 for the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
5 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
6 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
7 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:18:01 -0400
11 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
13 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
18 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
21 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
23 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
29 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
32 Use override targets instead.
33 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
34 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
35 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
36 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
37 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
38 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
39 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
40 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
41 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
42 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
47 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
50 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
54 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
60 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
63 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
64 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
65 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
66 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
67 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
68 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
72 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
75 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
76 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
77 the targets. Closes: #629139
79 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
80 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
81 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
82 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
83 are already set to other values will not be changed.
85 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
86 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
87 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
88 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
89 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
94 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
100 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
103 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
104 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
108 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
111 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
112 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
113 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
114 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
115 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
116 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
117 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
122 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
126 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
127 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
129 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
130 changes may be added to that mode.
131 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
132 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
133 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
134 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
135 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
136 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
137 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
138 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
139 * Removed old example rules files.
140 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
144 * update french translation.
145 * Fix french misspelling.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
149 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
152 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
156 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
159 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
160 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
161 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
162 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
163 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
164 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
165 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
169 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
172 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
173 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
174 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
175 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
176 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
177 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
179 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
180 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
181 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
182 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
183 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
184 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
185 (Thanks, David Prévot)
186 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
187 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
188 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
189 target fails. Closes: #601037
190 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
192 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
193 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
194 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
195 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
196 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
198 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
199 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
201 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
202 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
203 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
205 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
207 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
210 * update french translation.
211 * Fix french misspelling.
212 * French translation update after massive man page typography
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
216 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
222 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
226 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
228 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
232 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
234 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
235 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
236 introduced by the fix to #527990.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
240 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
243 changes are planned for that mode.
244 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
245 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
246 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
247 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
248 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
249 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
250 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
251 (genesis) still uses them.
252 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
253 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
254 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
255 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
256 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
257 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
258 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
259 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
260 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
261 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
262 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
263 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
264 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
265 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
266 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
267 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
268 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
269 commands. (See #570039)
270 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
272 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
277 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
281 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
282 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
283 in control file or debhelper config files.
284 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
288 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
291 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
292 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
296 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
299 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
303 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
305 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
306 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
307 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
311 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Updated French translation.
314 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
315 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
316 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
317 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
319 * Typo. Closes: #571968
320 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
321 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
322 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
323 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
324 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
325 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
326 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
327 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
328 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
330 * dh: Improve documentation.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
334 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
336 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
337 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
338 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
342 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
345 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
349 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
352 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
356 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
359 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
360 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
361 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
362 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
363 options that they do not support.
364 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
365 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
366 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
367 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
368 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
369 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
374 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
378 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
379 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
380 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
381 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
382 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
383 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
384 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
385 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
386 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
390 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
393 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
394 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
395 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
396 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
400 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Typo. Closes: #558654
403 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
404 installed. Closes: #558782
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
408 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
411 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
412 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
413 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
414 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
415 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
419 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
421 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
422 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
423 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
424 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
428 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
431 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
432 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
436 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
438 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
442 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
444 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
445 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
446 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
447 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
448 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
449 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
450 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
451 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
452 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
453 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
454 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
455 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
456 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
457 time soon.) Closes: #554509
458 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
460 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
461 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
462 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
463 document id. Closes: #555677
464 * Typo. Closes: #555659
465 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
466 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
467 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
468 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
470 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
471 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
472 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
477 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
480 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
481 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
482 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
483 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
484 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
485 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
486 translation (#494300 part 2)
489 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
491 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
492 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
493 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
494 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
495 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
499 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
502 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
503 (It was only run once due to logging.)
504 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
505 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
506 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
507 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
508 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
509 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
510 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
511 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
512 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
513 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
517 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
521 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
524 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
525 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
529 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
532 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
533 flag with arch all/any packages.
534 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
535 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
536 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
537 situation. Closes: #540794
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
541 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
545 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
546 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
547 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
548 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
549 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
552 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
553 the default. Closes: #538201
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
558 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
562 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
563 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
564 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
565 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
566 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
568 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
569 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
570 * Above Closes: #491117
571 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
576 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
582 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
583 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
584 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
588 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
591 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
592 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
593 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
594 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
595 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
600 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
603 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
604 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
608 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
610 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
614 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
616 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
617 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
619 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
620 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
621 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
625 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
627 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
628 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
632 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
638 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
640 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
641 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
642 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
647 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
649 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
653 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
656 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
657 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
658 created by using `python' first during build and install.
660 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
665 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
667 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
671 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
673 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
674 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
678 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
680 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
684 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
686 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
690 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
692 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
693 contributed by Modestas Vainius
694 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
695 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
696 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
697 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
698 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
699 that support it. Closes: #480577
700 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
701 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
702 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
704 - Adds support for cmake.
705 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
706 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
708 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
710 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
711 that use them. The options are:
712 --sourcedir, --destdir
713 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
714 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
715 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
716 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
717 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
721 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
727 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
730 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
731 default. Closes: #537140
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
735 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
738 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
739 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
743 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
746 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
750 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
753 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
757 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
760 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
762 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
763 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
764 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
768 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
771 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
772 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
773 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
777 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
780 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
781 warning or deprecation message.
782 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
783 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
784 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
785 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
786 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
787 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
788 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
789 Closes: #534639, #357434
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
793 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
799 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
802 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
803 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
804 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
805 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
807 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
808 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
809 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
813 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
819 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
826 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
829 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
833 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
837 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
838 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
840 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
841 file support. Closes: #494914
842 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
846 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
849 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
850 parameters. Closes: #527256
851 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
852 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
853 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
857 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
861 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
862 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
863 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
867 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
869 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
870 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
871 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
872 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
876 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
878 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
879 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
880 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
882 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
883 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
884 by triggers). Closes: #521181
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
888 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
892 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
896 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
899 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
900 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
901 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
902 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
907 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
913 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
916 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
917 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
918 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
919 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
920 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
922 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
923 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
924 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
925 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
926 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
927 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
931 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
934 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
935 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
936 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
937 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
938 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
940 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
944 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
946 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
950 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
952 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
953 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
954 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
955 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
956 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
957 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
958 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
959 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
960 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
961 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
962 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
966 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
968 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
969 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
971 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
972 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
973 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
974 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
976 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
977 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
981 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
983 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
984 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
985 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
986 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
987 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
988 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
989 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
991 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
992 that uses them. Affected options are:
993 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
994 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
995 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
996 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
997 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
998 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
999 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1000 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1001 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1002 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1003 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1004 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1008 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1015 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1021 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1024 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1026 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1027 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1028 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1029 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1030 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1031 than the old method.
1032 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1034 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1035 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1036 rules (see bug #509756).
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1040 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1046 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1047 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1048 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1049 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1053 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1056 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1057 empty files. Closes: #490937
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1061 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1067 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1074 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1077 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1078 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1079 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1080 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1085 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1087 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1088 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1089 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1090 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1094 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1097 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1098 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1099 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1100 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1101 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1105 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1112 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1115 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1116 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1117 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1118 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1119 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1120 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1121 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1122 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1123 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1127 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1130 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1131 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1132 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1133 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1135 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1136 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1137 breaking backwards compatibility.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1141 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1144 message in perl 5.10.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1148 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1154 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1157 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1161 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1164 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1168 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1171 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1172 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1173 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1174 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1175 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1176 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1177 logging by dh_listpackages.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1181 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1184 run and there are no packages of that type.
1185 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1186 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1187 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1188 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1190 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1191 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1195 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1198 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1199 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1203 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1206 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1207 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1209 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1210 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1211 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1212 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1213 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1214 planned but not yet implemented.)
1215 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1216 if the Makefile has such a target.
1217 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1218 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1219 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1220 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1221 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1222 but not yet implemented.)
1223 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1224 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1225 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1226 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1227 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1229 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1231 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1232 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1234 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1235 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1236 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1241 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1244 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1245 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1249 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1251 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1252 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1253 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1257 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1263 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1269 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1272 just those installed by the program.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1276 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1279 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1280 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1284 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1287 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1288 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1289 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1290 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1294 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1297 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1298 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1302 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1305 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1306 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1310 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1313 with policy. Closes: #461392
1314 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1315 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1316 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1317 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1318 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1322 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1325 Closes: #460340, #460351
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1329 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1332 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1333 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1334 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1335 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1339 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1342 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1343 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1344 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1345 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1346 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1347 package build directory won't work.
1348 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1349 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1350 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1351 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1352 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1353 mode. Closes: #459426
1354 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1359 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1362 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1366 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1370 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1371 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1372 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1373 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1374 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1375 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1379 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1382 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1383 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1384 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1385 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1389 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1392 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1393 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1394 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1395 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1396 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1400 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1403 debian/package.triggers files.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1407 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1410 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1414 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1417 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1418 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1419 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1420 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1425 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1428 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1432 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1435 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1436 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1438 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1443 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1447 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1448 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1449 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1453 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1460 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1467 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1470 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1472 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1473 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1474 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1476 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1477 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1478 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1482 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1485 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1486 * Update urls to web page.
1487 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1488 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1489 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1490 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1494 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1497 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1498 - typo in alternatives call
1499 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1501 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1502 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1506 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1509 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1514 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1520 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1526 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1529 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1531 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1532 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1533 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1534 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1535 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1536 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1537 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1538 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1539 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1540 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1541 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1545 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1548 package install. Closes: #415717
1549 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1550 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1551 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1552 script and then remove the python files.
1553 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1554 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1555 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1556 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1557 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1558 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1559 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1560 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1561 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1562 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1563 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1564 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1565 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1569 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Correct typo in french translation
1575 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1576 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1578 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1580 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1581 Closes: #406921, #381940
1582 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1584 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1585 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1586 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1587 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1588 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1589 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1590 specified). Closes: #381851
1591 * Misc minor changes.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1595 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1602 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1603 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1607 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1613 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1614 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1617 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1618 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1620 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1621 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1622 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1623 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1627 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1630 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1633 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1637 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1643 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1649 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1650 a difficult situation.
1651 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1652 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1653 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1654 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1655 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1656 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1657 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1658 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1659 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1660 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1664 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Non-maintainer upload.
1667 * Update of dh_python
1668 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1669 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1671 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1672 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1673 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1674 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1675 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1677 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1679 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Non-maintainer upload.
1682 * Update of dh_python
1683 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1684 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1685 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1686 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1687 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1688 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1689 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1690 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1691 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1692 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1694 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1695 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1696 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1697 the not too-distant future).
1698 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1699 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1700 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1701 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1702 thus made the build fail.
1704 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1706 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Non-maintainer upload.
1709 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1711 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1713 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1716 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1717 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1718 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1719 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1720 package. Closes: #301424
1721 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1722 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1723 fonts). Closes: #372686
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1727 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1733 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1734 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1735 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1736 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1737 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1738 above, but already depends on that.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1742 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1745 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1746 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1747 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1748 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1749 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1753 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1759 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1765 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1766 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1770 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1773 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1777 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1781 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1782 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1783 new version (0.24.1).
1784 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1785 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1788 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1789 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1790 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1791 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1792 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1793 new directory on their own.
1794 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1795 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1799 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1802 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1803 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1804 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1805 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1809 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1812 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1813 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1814 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1815 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1816 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1820 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1826 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1830 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1831 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1835 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1836 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1840 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1842 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1843 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1845 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1846 ignored. Closes: #337664
1848 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1853 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1859 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1864 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1865 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1866 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1867 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1868 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1869 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1870 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1874 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1877 version. Closes: #350607
1878 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1879 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1880 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1881 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1885 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1888 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1889 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1890 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1894 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1901 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1907 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1910 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1914 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1917 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1918 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1919 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1920 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1921 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1922 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1926 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1929 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1930 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1935 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1938 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1942 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1945 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1949 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1952 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1953 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1954 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1955 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1956 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1957 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1961 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1965 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1966 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1967 link. Closes: #346405
1968 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1970 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1971 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1972 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1973 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1974 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1975 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1976 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1980 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1987 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1993 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1996 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2000 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2003 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2008 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2012 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2013 installed. Closes: #342033
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2017 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2020 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2021 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2022 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2027 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2033 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2039 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2043 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2044 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2045 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2049 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2052 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2057 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2064 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2070 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2073 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2074 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2075 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2076 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2077 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2078 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2079 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2081 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2085 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2088 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2089 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2096 in standard man dirs.
2097 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2101 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2107 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2110 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2115 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2122 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2129 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2132 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2133 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2140 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2141 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2142 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2144 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2146 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2152 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2158 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2161 mode. Closes: #324161
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2165 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2168 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2169 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2170 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2171 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2176 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2179 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2180 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2181 is necesary for sanity.
2182 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2183 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2188 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2190 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2191 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2195 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2198 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2202 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2208 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2211 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2212 released, so use at your own risk.
2213 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2214 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2216 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2217 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2218 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2219 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2220 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2221 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2222 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2223 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2224 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2225 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2226 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2227 including twice per config file line now..
2228 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2229 and simplfy the rules file.
2230 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2231 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2232 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2234 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2235 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2242 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2246 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2249 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2253 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2256 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2263 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2264 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2265 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2266 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2267 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2268 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2272 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2275 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2276 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2277 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2282 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2285 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2286 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2291 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2294 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2295 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2296 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2301 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2304 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2305 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2306 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2310 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2316 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2323 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2326 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2327 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2328 unknown. Closes: #282924
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2332 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2339 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * Spanish man page updates.
2342 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2347 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2353 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2356 * dh_desktop: reindent
2357 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2358 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2362 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2370 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2374 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2376 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2380 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2383 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2384 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2388 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2394 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2407 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2410 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2414 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2417 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2418 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2419 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2420 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2421 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2422 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2424 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2425 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2426 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2427 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2428 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2429 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2430 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2431 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2432 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2433 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2434 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2435 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2436 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2437 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2438 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2439 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2443 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2453 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2457 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2460 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2464 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2467 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2471 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2474 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2478 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2484 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2490 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2496 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2499 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2500 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2501 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2505 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2508 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2512 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2515 but occasionally right and necessary.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2519 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2522 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2523 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2524 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2525 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2526 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2530 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2533 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2535 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2536 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2537 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2538 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2539 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2540 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2541 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2542 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2543 postinst scripts for udebs.
2544 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2548 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2551 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2553 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2554 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2558 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2564 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2571 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2578 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2581 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2585 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2588 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2592 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2595 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2598 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2599 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2603 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2609 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2612 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2616 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2619 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2620 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2621 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2623 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2625 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2626 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2627 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2631 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2634 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2639 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2642 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2643 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2644 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2649 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2655 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2661 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2664 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2665 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2666 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2667 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2668 associated -dbg packages.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2672 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2675 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2679 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2682 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2686 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2689 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2693 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2696 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2701 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2704 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2708 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2711 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2716 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2719 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2723 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2727 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2728 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2729 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2730 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2731 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2732 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2733 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2734 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2735 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2736 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2740 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2743 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2748 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2751 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2752 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2756 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2759 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2760 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2765 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2768 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2772 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2775 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2779 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2782 out section number. Closes: #204731
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2786 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2793 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2799 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2805 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2808 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2809 removal. Closes: #204286
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2813 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2816 renaming. Closes: #203548
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2820 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2823 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2824 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2828 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2834 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2840 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2846 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2849 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2850 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2851 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2855 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2858 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2859 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2863 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2869 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2876 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2879 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2884 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2887 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2891 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2894 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2896 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2897 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2901 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2904 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2909 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2912 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2916 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2922 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2924 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2928 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2931 it break hard links (see #188663).
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2935 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2938 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2942 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2948 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2952 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2953 debconf-mergetemplates
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2957 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2960 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2964 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2967 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2971 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2974 * Update debhelper(1).
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2978 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2981 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2982 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2983 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2984 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2985 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2989 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2992 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2993 the shell. Closes: #178524
2994 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2998 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3001 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3005 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3008 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3012 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3015 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3016 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3017 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3018 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3023 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3026 files from installation.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3030 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3033 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3034 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3038 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3041 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3045 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3048 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3052 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3058 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3064 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3068 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3069 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3071 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3075 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3078 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3079 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3080 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3081 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3085 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3088 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3092 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3095 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3096 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3100 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3104 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3109 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3115 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3119 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3120 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3121 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3126 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3129 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3130 practice. Closes: #163303
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3134 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3140 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3147 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3150 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3152 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3153 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3154 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3155 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3156 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3160 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3163 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3168 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3174 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3181 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3184 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3189 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3195 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3201 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3207 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3214 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3217 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3218 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3219 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3220 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3225 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3231 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3238 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3241 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3242 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3246 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3249 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3250 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3251 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3252 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3253 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3257 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3260 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3262 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3267 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3270 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3274 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3277 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3278 right thing. Closes: #150644
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3282 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Stupid, evil typo.
3285 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3289 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3296 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3299 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3300 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3305 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3311 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3314 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3318 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3321 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3322 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3327 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3330 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3334 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3340 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3343 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3344 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3348 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3354 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * Removing perl warning message.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3360 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3363 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3364 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3365 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3366 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3367 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3368 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3369 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3370 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3374 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3380 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3387 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3390 debconf-mergetemplate.
3391 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3392 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3396 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3399 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3400 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3401 dh_install, which ...
3402 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3403 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3404 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3405 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3406 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3407 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3408 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3409 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3410 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3411 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3412 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3413 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3414 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3415 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3416 other minor changes.
3417 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3418 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3419 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3420 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3421 course there's -X ..)
3422 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3423 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3424 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3426 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3427 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3428 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3429 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3430 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3435 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3441 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3444 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3448 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3454 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3460 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3466 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3472 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3475 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3476 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3477 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3478 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3480 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3481 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3485 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3491 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3494 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3498 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3501 upset. Closes: #131322
3503 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3505 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3508 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3509 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3510 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3511 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3512 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3513 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3514 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3515 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3516 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3517 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3518 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3519 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3520 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3521 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3522 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3524 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3528 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3531 - Better indenting of generated code.
3532 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3536 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3540 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3541 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3542 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3543 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3544 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3545 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3546 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3550 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3553 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3557 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3560 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3561 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3562 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3563 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3564 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3565 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3566 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3567 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3568 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3569 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3570 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3571 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3572 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3573 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3574 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3579 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3585 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3588 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3589 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3593 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3596 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3597 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3601 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3607 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3610 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3611 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3612 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3613 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3614 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3619 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3625 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3628 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3632 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3635 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3640 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3646 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3649 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3653 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3659 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3663 Also some indentation fixes.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3667 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3670 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3671 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3672 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3673 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3674 Closes: #106514, #85520
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3678 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3684 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3690 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3696 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3702 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3708 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3711 change it in debhelper v4..
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3715 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3721 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3724 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3728 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3731 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3735 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3741 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3744 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3745 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3746 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3747 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3748 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3749 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3750 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3751 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3752 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3753 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3754 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3755 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3759 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3762 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3766 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3773 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3776 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3777 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3778 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3779 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3780 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3781 program those options go to. So, for example,
3782 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3783 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3784 something complex. Closes: #89311
3785 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3789 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3792 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3793 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3794 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3798 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3801 through loop. Closes: #98598
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3805 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * Missing semi-colon.
3808 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3809 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3813 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3816 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3817 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3818 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3822 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3825 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3826 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3830 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3833 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3837 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3840 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3841 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3845 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3848 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3849 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3850 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3854 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3857 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3858 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3859 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3863 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3866 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3870 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3876 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3882 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3888 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3894 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3897 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3901 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3904 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3905 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3906 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3907 followed. Closes: #85483
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3911 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3913 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3914 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3915 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3919 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3922 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3923 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3924 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3925 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3926 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3927 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3928 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3929 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3930 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3931 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3932 Closes: #88464, #77743
3933 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3934 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3935 us to deal with that gracefully.
3936 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3938 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3939 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3940 a while, Closes: #51225
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3944 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3950 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3953 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3957 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3961 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3966 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3969 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3970 don't make packlist files.
3971 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3972 debhelper coding standards.
3973 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3974 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3978 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3981 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3985 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3988 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3989 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3990 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3991 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3992 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3993 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3994 but is mildly deprecated.
3995 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3996 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3997 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3998 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3999 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4000 switching to statoverrides..
4001 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4002 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4003 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4004 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4005 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4006 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4008 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4009 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4010 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4011 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4012 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4013 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4014 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4015 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4016 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4018 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4019 variable names, pod man pages).
4020 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4021 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4022 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4023 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4024 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4025 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4026 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4030 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4036 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4043 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4046 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4050 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4052 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4053 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4054 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4058 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4060 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4061 they were previously ignored.
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4065 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4067 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4068 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4072 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4074 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4075 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4076 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4080 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4082 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4086 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4088 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4089 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4093 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4095 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4096 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4097 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4098 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4099 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4100 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4101 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4102 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4103 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4104 it is an obsolete program.
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4108 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4110 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4114 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4118 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4120 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4124 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4126 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4128 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4130 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4134 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4140 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * typo: Closes, #78567
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4146 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4152 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4158 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4161 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4162 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4163 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4164 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4165 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4169 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4172 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4177 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4180 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4181 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4182 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4183 backwards-compatibility.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4187 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4190 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4191 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4192 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4193 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4194 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4195 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4197 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4198 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4199 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4201 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4203 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4204 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4205 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4206 should now be raised to severity important..
4207 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4208 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4212 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4215 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4220 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4226 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4232 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4238 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4245 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4248 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4249 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4250 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4251 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4255 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4261 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4264 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4265 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4266 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4267 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4268 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4269 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4274 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4277 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4281 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4287 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4290 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4295 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4298 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4299 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4300 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4301 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4305 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4309 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4312 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4315 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4316 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4319 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4321 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4322 the TODO entry about it.
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4326 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4333 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4336 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4337 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4341 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4344 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4345 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4346 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4347 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4351 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4357 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4364 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4367 (this appears to be logal).
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4371 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4374 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4375 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4376 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4377 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4381 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4387 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4390 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4391 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4392 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4393 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4397 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4403 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4406 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4410 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4417 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4420 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4421 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4422 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4427 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4434 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4440 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4443 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4444 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4445 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4446 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4447 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4448 notice until v2 is complete.
4449 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4450 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4451 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4452 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4453 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4454 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4456 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4457 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4458 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4459 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4463 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4469 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4476 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4479 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4483 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4490 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4493 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4494 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4495 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4496 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4501 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4504 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4505 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4506 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4511 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4514 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4515 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4519 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4522 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4526 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4529 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4533 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4540 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4543 depend on the build and install targets.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4547 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4550 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4554 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4561 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4567 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4573 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4576 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4577 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4578 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4579 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4580 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4581 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4583 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4584 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4585 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4586 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4587 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4588 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4589 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4593 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4599 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4605 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4607 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4608 right place. Closes: #55065
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4612 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4619 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4622 * Copyright date updates.
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4626 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4629 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4634 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4640 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4647 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4653 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4659 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4665 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4668 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4669 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4670 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4671 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4672 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4673 bits until all files have been registered.
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4677 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * dh_installmanpages:
4680 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4681 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4682 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4683 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4684 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4685 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4686 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4687 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4688 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4689 otherwise change the result at all.
4691 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4692 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4693 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4694 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4695 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4700 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4706 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4708 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4709 act on files that don't exist.
4710 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4711 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4712 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4714 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4715 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4716 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4717 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4721 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4727 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4733 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4736 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4740 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4743 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4745 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4746 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4747 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4751 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4754 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4755 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4756 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4757 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4758 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4759 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4760 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4762 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4764 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4768 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4775 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4781 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4787 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4790 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4794 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4800 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4806 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4809 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4810 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4811 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4812 I made some changes, though:
4813 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4814 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4815 that is a clear violation of policy.
4816 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4817 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4818 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4819 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4820 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4821 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4822 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4823 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4824 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4826 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4830 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4836 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4839 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4843 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4846 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4847 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4852 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4858 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4865 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4868 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4869 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4870 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4871 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4872 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4873 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4874 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4878 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4884 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4888 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4889 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4893 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4899 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4902 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4906 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4909 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4910 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4914 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4916 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4921 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4925 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4929 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4932 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4933 for the dependancies to be generated.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4937 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4940 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4944 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4947 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4948 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4949 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4954 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4957 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4958 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4962 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4968 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4974 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4977 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4981 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4987 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4990 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4991 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4992 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4993 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4994 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4995 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4996 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4997 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4998 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4999 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5000 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5001 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5005 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5008 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5009 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5011 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5012 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5013 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5014 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5015 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5016 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5018 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5019 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5023 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5026 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5030 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5037 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5040 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5045 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5048 for building debhelper.
5049 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5053 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5060 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5063 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5067 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5069 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5070 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5071 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5072 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5073 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5074 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5075 it's always available.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5079 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5082 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5083 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5084 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5088 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5091 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5092 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5096 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5102 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5105 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5109 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5115 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5118 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5119 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5120 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5124 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5127 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5132 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5135 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5136 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5138 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5139 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5143 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5149 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5155 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5158 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5162 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5165 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5166 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5168 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5172 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5175 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5176 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5177 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5181 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5184 things if CDPATH is set.
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5188 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5194 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5197 seems to make sense for the transition.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5201 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5204 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5209 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5212 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5213 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5217 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5220 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5224 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5227 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5228 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5229 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5230 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5234 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5240 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5243 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5244 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5245 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5246 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5247 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5248 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5249 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5250 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5251 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5252 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5257 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5260 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5261 * README: mention doc/v2
5262 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5263 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5267 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5269 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5270 be using this script RSN.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5274 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5277 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5278 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5279 more than 1 init script.
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5283 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5286 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5290 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * Changed perl version detection.
5293 * Changed call to find.
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5297 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5300 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5302 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5307 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * Really include dh_installpam.
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5313 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5316 * Wrote man page for same.
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5320 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5323 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5324 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5329 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5336 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5339 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5340 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5341 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5342 x bit was being set!
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5346 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5349 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5350 well. (Closes: 38900)
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5354 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5357 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5358 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5362 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5368 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5375 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5381 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5384 help from Julian Gilbey.
5385 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5386 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5387 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5388 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5389 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5390 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5391 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5396 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5402 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5404 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5409 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5415 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5421 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5424 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5428 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5431 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5435 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5438 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5442 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5448 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5451 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5455 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5461 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5467 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5470 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5471 may be deleted. (#35845)
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5475 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * Various man page enhancements.
5478 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5483 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5486 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5487 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5491 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5494 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5495 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5496 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5498 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5499 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5504 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5510 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * Another very minor typo fix.
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5516 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * Very minor typo fix.
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5522 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5525 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5526 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5530 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5536 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5539 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5540 variables properly (#34850).
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5544 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5550 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5553 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5554 (automatically generated by build process).
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5558 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5560 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5564 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5567 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5568 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5570 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5574 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5577 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5581 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * README: minor typo fix.
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5587 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5590 leave it at that. :-)
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5594 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5600 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5606 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5609 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5610 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5611 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5615 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5618 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5622 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5625 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5629 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5632 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5633 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5634 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5635 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5639 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5642 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5643 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5644 Craig Small for spotting this.
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5648 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5651 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5652 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5656 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5662 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5665 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5669 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5671 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5672 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5673 working on the last version of debhelper.
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5677 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5680 being made. (#23255)
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5684 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5690 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5693 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5697 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5700 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5701 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5702 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5703 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5707 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5710 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5711 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5712 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5713 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5715 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5716 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5718 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5723 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5729 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5735 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5737 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5738 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5739 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5740 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5741 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5742 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5743 suidregister actually supports it.
5744 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5745 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5749 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5756 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5758 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5759 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5760 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5761 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5762 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5763 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5764 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5765 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5769 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5771 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5772 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5776 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5779 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5780 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5781 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5782 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5786 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5789 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5791 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5792 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5793 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5794 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5795 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5796 effect, either. (#30118)
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5800 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5802 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5806 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5808 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5809 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5810 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5814 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5820 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5823 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5824 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5825 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5826 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5830 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5833 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5834 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5838 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5844 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5847 packages, painlessly.
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5851 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5857 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5863 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5869 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * The perl conversion is complete.
5873 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5875 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5876 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5877 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5882 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5885 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5886 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5887 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5891 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5893 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5894 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5896 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5898 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5899 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5903 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5906 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5907 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5911 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5917 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5919 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5920 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5921 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5922 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5923 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5924 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5928 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5930 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5931 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5932 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5933 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5934 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5938 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5940 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5941 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5945 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5947 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5948 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5949 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5950 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5951 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5952 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5953 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5954 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5955 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5959 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5965 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5968 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5969 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5970 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5975 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5978 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5982 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5984 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5985 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5989 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5992 sections of shared libraries.
5993 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5994 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5995 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5996 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5997 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5998 things you don't want them to.
5999 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6000 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6004 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6007 shared libraries. (#26414)
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6011 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6013 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6014 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6015 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6016 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6020 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6022 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6024 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6026 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6027 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6028 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6029 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6030 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6034 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6037 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6041 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6044 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6045 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6050 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6053 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6057 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6059 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6060 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6061 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6062 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6063 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6064 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6066 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6067 remove debian/files properly.
6068 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6069 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6070 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6071 * Removed bogus menu file.
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6075 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6078 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6082 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6084 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6085 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6086 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6087 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6088 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6089 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6090 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6094 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6097 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6098 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6099 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6100 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6104 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6106 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6111 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6113 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6114 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6115 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6117 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6118 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6119 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6120 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6121 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6122 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6126 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6129 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6130 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6131 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6132 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6133 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6134 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6135 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6136 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6137 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6138 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6139 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6140 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6141 passed any switches.
6142 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6146 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6149 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6150 at all for a long while.
6151 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6152 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6153 large chunks in the process.
6154 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6155 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6156 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6161 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6163 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6164 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6166 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6171 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6174 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6175 that don't always have the same files in them.
6176 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6177 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6178 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6182 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6184 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6186 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6187 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6188 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6189 updating 27 man pages.
6190 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6191 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6192 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6193 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6194 programs act on. (#25247)
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6198 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6202 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6203 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6204 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6205 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6206 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6207 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6212 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6214 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6219 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6221 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6226 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6228 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6229 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6233 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6235 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6239 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6241 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6242 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6243 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6244 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6245 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6246 package by accident.
6247 * Is version 1.0 next?
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6251 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6253 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6254 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6255 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6259 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6261 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6262 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6263 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6264 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6265 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6266 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6268 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6273 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6275 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6276 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6277 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6281 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6283 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6284 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6288 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6290 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6291 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6292 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6297 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6299 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6303 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6305 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6306 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6307 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6312 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6314 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6318 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6320 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6321 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6322 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6323 past week. Thanks, guys!
6325 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6326 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6327 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6328 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6329 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6330 would do in the same situation.
6331 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6332 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6334 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6336 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6337 permissions changed.
6338 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6339 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6340 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6341 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6342 files are treated identically.
6343 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6344 * Minor man page fixes.
6345 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6346 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6347 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6351 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6353 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6354 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6355 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6356 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6357 use -X multiple times, too.
6358 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6359 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6363 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6365 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6366 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6367 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6371 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6373 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6374 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6378 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6380 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6381 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6382 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6383 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6384 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6385 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6386 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6387 shape if you're starting a new package.
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6391 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6394 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6398 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6400 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6401 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6402 because of missing symlinks.
6404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6406 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6408 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6412 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6414 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6415 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6416 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6417 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6418 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6419 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6421 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6422 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6426 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6428 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6429 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6430 to be changed after the fact :-)
6431 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6435 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6437 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6438 no version string after the -V.
6440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6442 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6444 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6445 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6450 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6452 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6453 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6457 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6459 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6460 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6461 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6462 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6463 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6464 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6465 I always welcome corrections!
6467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6469 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6471 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6475 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6477 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6478 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6479 * Documented this new switch.
6481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6483 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6485 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6486 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6487 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6488 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6489 no packages use the old behavior.
6491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6493 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6495 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6496 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6497 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6501 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6504 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6508 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6510 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6514 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6516 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6517 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6521 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6523 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6524 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6525 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6526 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6530 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6532 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6536 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6539 into the source package by accident.
6541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6543 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6545 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6546 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6547 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6548 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6549 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6550 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6551 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6556 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6558 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6560 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6561 inspired to implement some of it.
6562 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6566 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6568 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6569 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6573 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6575 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6576 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6577 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6581 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6584 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6585 have done.) (#17598)
6587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6589 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6591 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6595 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6597 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6601 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6603 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6604 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6608 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6610 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6611 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6612 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6616 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6618 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6619 argument processor in perl.
6620 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6621 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6622 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6623 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6627 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6630 type directories. (#16933)
6631 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6632 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6633 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6634 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6635 are supported. (#16935)
6636 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6641 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6643 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6644 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6648 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6650 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6652 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6653 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6654 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6655 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6656 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6657 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6661 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6663 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6664 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6665 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6667 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6668 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6669 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6670 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6671 a given package, or -i or -a.
6672 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6673 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6674 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6675 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6676 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6677 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6678 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6679 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6680 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6682 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6683 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6684 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6688 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6690 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6691 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6692 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6697 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6699 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6700 does not have a section.
6702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6704 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6706 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6707 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6708 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6709 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6713 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6715 * Fixed typo #16215.
6717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6719 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6721 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6722 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6723 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6724 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6725 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6726 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6731 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6733 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6734 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6735 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6736 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6741 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6743 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6747 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6749 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6753 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6755 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6756 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6757 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6758 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6759 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6760 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6761 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6765 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6767 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6771 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6773 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6774 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6778 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6780 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6781 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6782 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6783 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6787 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6789 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6790 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6794 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6796 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6800 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6802 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6803 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6807 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6809 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6810 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6814 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6816 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6820 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6822 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6823 postinst, postrm, etc.
6825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6827 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6829 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6833 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6835 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6836 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6837 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6838 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6839 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6840 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6844 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6846 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6847 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6848 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6852 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6854 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6855 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6859 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6861 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6862 installing package files into.
6863 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6868 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6870 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6872 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6876 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6878 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6882 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6884 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6885 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6889 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6891 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6892 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6893 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6894 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6895 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6899 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6901 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6902 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6903 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6904 multiple binary packages.
6905 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6906 should rebuild them with this version.
6907 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6911 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6913 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6914 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6918 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6920 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6921 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6925 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6927 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6928 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6929 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6930 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6931 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6932 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6933 debian/README.debian.
6934 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6935 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6936 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6937 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6938 in a few situations.)
6940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6942 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6944 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6948 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6950 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6954 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6956 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6957 * Fixed several man pages.
6959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6961 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6963 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6964 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6965 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6969 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6971 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6972 is ready for general use.
6973 * Added man pages for all commands.
6974 * Multiple binary package support.
6975 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6976 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6977 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6979 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6980 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6981 auto-installed as parameters.
6982 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6984 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6987 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6988 the package build directory it is to act on.
6989 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6990 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6991 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6995 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6997 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6998 ready to replace debstd.
7000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400