1 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
7 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
10 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
11 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
15 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
18 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
19 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
20 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
21 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
22 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
23 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
24 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
29 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
33 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
34 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
36 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
37 changes may be added to that mode.
38 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
39 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
40 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
41 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
42 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
43 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
44 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
45 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
46 * Removed old example rules files.
47 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
51 * update french translation.
52 * Fix french misspelling.
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
56 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
59 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
63 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
66 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
68 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
69 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
70 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
71 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
72 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
76 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
79 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
80 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
81 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
82 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
83 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
84 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
86 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
87 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
88 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
89 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
90 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
91 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
92 (Thanks, David Prévot)
93 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
94 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
95 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
96 target fails. Closes: #601037
97 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
99 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
100 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
101 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
102 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
103 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
105 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
106 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
108 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
109 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
110 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
112 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
114 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
117 * update french translation.
118 * Fix french misspelling.
119 * French translation update after massive man page typography
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
123 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
129 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
133 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
135 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
139 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
141 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
142 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
143 introduced by the fix to #527990.
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
147 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
150 changes are planned for that mode.
151 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
152 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
153 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
154 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
155 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
156 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
157 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
158 (genesis) still uses them.
159 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
160 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
161 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
162 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
163 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
164 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
165 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
166 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
167 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
168 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
169 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
170 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
171 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
172 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
173 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
174 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
175 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
176 commands. (See #570039)
177 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
179 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
184 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
188 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
189 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
190 in control file or debhelper config files.
191 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
195 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
198 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
199 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
203 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
206 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
210 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
213 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
214 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
218 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Updated French translation.
221 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
222 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
223 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
224 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
226 * Typo. Closes: #571968
227 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
228 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
229 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
230 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
231 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
232 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
233 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
234 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
235 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
237 * dh: Improve documentation.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
241 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
243 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
244 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
245 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
249 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
252 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
256 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
259 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
263 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
266 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
267 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
268 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
269 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
270 options that they do not support.
271 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
272 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
273 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
274 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
275 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
276 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
281 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
285 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
286 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
287 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
288 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
289 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
290 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
291 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
292 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
293 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
297 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
300 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
301 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
302 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
303 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
307 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Typo. Closes: #558654
310 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
311 installed. Closes: #558782
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
315 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
318 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
319 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
320 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
321 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
322 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
326 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
328 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
329 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
330 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
331 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
335 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
338 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
339 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
343 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
345 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
349 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
351 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
352 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
353 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
354 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
355 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
356 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
357 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
358 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
359 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
360 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
361 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
362 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
363 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
364 time soon.) Closes: #554509
365 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
367 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
368 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
369 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
370 document id. Closes: #555677
371 * Typo. Closes: #555659
372 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
373 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
374 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
375 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
377 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
378 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
379 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
384 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
387 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
388 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
389 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
390 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
391 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
392 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
393 translation (#494300 part 2)
396 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
398 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
399 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
400 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
401 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
402 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
406 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
409 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
410 (It was only run once due to logging.)
411 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
412 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
413 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
414 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
415 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
416 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
417 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
418 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
419 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
420 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
424 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
428 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
431 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
432 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
436 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
439 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
440 flag with arch all/any packages.
441 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
442 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
443 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
444 situation. Closes: #540794
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
448 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
452 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
453 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
454 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
455 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
456 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
459 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
460 the default. Closes: #538201
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
465 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
467 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
469 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
470 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
471 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
472 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
473 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
475 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
476 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
477 * Above Closes: #491117
478 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
483 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
489 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
490 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
491 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
495 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
498 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
499 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
500 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
501 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
502 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
507 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
510 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
511 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
515 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
517 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
521 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
523 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
524 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
526 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
527 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
528 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
532 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
534 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
535 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
539 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
545 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
547 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
548 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
549 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
554 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
556 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
560 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
563 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
564 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
565 created by using `python' first during build and install.
567 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
572 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
574 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
578 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
580 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
581 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
585 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
587 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
591 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
593 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
597 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
599 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
600 contributed by Modestas Vainius
601 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
602 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
603 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
604 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
605 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
606 that support it. Closes: #480577
607 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
608 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
609 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
611 - Adds support for cmake.
612 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
613 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
615 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
617 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
618 that use them. The options are:
619 --sourcedir, --destdir
620 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
621 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
622 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
623 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
624 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
628 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
634 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
636 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
637 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
638 default. Closes: #537140
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
642 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
645 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
646 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
650 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
653 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
657 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
660 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
664 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
667 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
669 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
670 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
671 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
675 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
678 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
679 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
680 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
684 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
687 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
688 warning or deprecation message.
689 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
690 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
691 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
692 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
693 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
694 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
695 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
696 Closes: #534639, #357434
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
700 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
706 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
708 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
709 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
710 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
711 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
712 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
714 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
715 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
716 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
720 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
726 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
733 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
736 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
740 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
744 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
745 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
747 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
748 file support. Closes: #494914
749 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
753 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
756 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
757 parameters. Closes: #527256
758 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
759 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
760 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
764 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
768 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
769 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
770 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
774 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
777 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
778 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
779 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
783 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
786 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
787 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
789 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
790 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
791 by triggers). Closes: #521181
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
795 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
799 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
803 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
806 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
807 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
808 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
809 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
814 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
820 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
822 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
823 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
824 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
825 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
826 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
827 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
829 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
830 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
831 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
832 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
833 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
834 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
838 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
841 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
842 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
843 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
844 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
845 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
847 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
851 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
853 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
857 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
859 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
860 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
861 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
862 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
863 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
864 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
865 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
866 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
867 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
868 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
869 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
873 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
875 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
876 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
878 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
879 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
880 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
881 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
883 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
884 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
888 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
890 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
891 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
892 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
893 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
894 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
895 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
896 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
898 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
899 that uses them. Affected options are:
900 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
901 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
902 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
903 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
904 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
905 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
906 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
907 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
908 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
909 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
910 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
911 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
915 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
922 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
928 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
930 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
931 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
933 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
934 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
935 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
936 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
937 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
939 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
941 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
942 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
943 rules (see bug #509756).
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
947 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
953 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
954 * Typo. Closes: #493062
955 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
956 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
960 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
963 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
964 empty files. Closes: #490937
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
968 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
974 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
981 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
984 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
985 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
986 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
987 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
992 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
994 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
995 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
996 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
997 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1001 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1004 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1005 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1006 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1007 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1008 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1012 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1019 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1022 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1023 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1024 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1025 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1026 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1027 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1028 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1029 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1030 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1034 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1037 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1038 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1039 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1040 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1042 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1043 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1044 breaking backwards compatibility.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1048 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1051 message in perl 5.10.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1055 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1061 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1064 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1068 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1071 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1075 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1078 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1079 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1080 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1081 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1082 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1083 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1084 logging by dh_listpackages.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1088 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1091 run and there are no packages of that type.
1092 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1093 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1094 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1095 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1097 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1098 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1102 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1105 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1106 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1110 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1113 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1114 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1116 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1117 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1118 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1119 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1120 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1121 planned but not yet implemented.)
1122 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1123 if the Makefile has such a target.
1124 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1125 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1126 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1127 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1128 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1129 but not yet implemented.)
1130 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1131 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1132 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1133 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1134 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1136 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1138 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1139 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1141 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1142 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1143 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1148 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1151 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1152 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1156 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1158 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1159 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1160 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1164 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1170 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1176 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1179 just those installed by the program.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1183 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1186 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1187 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1191 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1194 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1195 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1196 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1197 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1201 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1204 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1205 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1209 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1212 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1213 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1217 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1220 with policy. Closes: #461392
1221 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1222 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1223 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1224 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1225 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1229 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1232 Closes: #460340, #460351
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1236 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1239 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1240 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1241 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1242 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1246 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1249 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1250 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1251 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1252 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1253 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1254 package build directory won't work.
1255 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1256 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1257 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1258 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1259 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1260 mode. Closes: #459426
1261 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1266 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1269 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1273 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1277 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1278 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1279 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1280 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1281 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1282 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1286 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1289 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1290 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1291 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1292 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1296 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1299 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1300 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1301 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1302 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1303 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1307 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1310 debian/package.triggers files.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1314 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1317 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1321 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1324 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1325 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1326 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1327 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1332 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1335 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1339 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1342 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1343 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1345 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1350 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1354 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1355 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1356 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1360 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1367 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1374 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1377 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1379 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1380 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1381 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1383 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1384 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1385 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1389 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1392 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1393 * Update urls to web page.
1394 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1395 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1396 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1397 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1401 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1404 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1405 - typo in alternatives call
1406 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1408 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1409 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1413 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1416 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1421 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1427 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1433 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1436 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1438 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1439 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1440 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1441 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1442 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1443 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1444 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1445 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1446 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1447 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1448 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1452 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1455 package install. Closes: #415717
1456 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1457 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1458 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1459 script and then remove the python files.
1460 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1461 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1462 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1463 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1464 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1465 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1466 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1467 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1468 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1469 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1470 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1471 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1472 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1476 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Correct typo in french translation
1482 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1483 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1485 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1487 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1488 Closes: #406921, #381940
1489 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1491 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1492 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1493 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1494 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1495 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1496 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1497 specified). Closes: #381851
1498 * Misc minor changes.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1502 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1509 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1510 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1514 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1520 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1521 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1524 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1525 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1527 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1528 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1529 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1530 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1534 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1537 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1540 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1544 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1550 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1556 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1557 a difficult situation.
1558 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1559 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1560 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1561 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1562 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1563 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1564 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1565 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1566 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1567 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1571 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Non-maintainer upload.
1574 * Update of dh_python
1575 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1576 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1578 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1579 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1580 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1581 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1582 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1584 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1586 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Non-maintainer upload.
1589 * Update of dh_python
1590 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1591 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1592 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1593 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1594 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1595 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1596 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1597 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1598 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1599 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1601 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1602 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1603 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1604 the not too-distant future).
1605 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1606 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1607 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1608 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1609 thus made the build fail.
1611 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1613 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * Non-maintainer upload.
1616 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1618 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1620 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1623 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1624 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1625 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1626 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1627 package. Closes: #301424
1628 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1629 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1630 fonts). Closes: #372686
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1634 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1640 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1641 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1642 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1643 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1644 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1645 above, but already depends on that.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1649 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1652 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1653 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1654 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1655 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1656 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1660 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1666 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1672 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1673 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1677 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1680 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1684 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1688 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1689 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1690 new version (0.24.1).
1691 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1692 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1695 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1696 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1697 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1698 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1699 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1700 new directory on their own.
1701 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1702 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1706 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1709 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1710 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1711 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1712 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1716 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1719 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1720 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1721 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1722 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1723 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1727 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1733 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1737 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1738 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1742 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1743 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1747 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1749 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1750 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1752 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1753 ignored. Closes: #337664
1755 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1760 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1766 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1771 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1772 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1773 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1774 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1775 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1776 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1777 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1781 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1784 version. Closes: #350607
1785 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1786 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1787 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1788 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1792 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1795 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1796 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1797 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1801 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1808 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1814 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1817 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1821 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1824 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1825 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1826 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1827 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1828 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1829 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1833 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1836 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1837 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1842 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1845 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1849 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1852 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1856 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1859 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1860 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1861 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1862 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1863 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1864 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1868 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1872 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1873 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1874 link. Closes: #346405
1875 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1877 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1878 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1879 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1880 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1881 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1882 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1883 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1887 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1894 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1900 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1903 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1907 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1910 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1915 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1919 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1920 installed. Closes: #342033
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1924 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1927 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1928 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1929 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1934 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1940 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1946 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1950 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1951 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1952 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1956 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1959 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1964 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1971 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1977 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1980 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1981 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1982 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1983 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1984 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1985 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1986 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1988 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1992 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1995 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1996 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2000 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2003 in standard man dirs.
2004 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2008 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2017 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2022 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2029 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2036 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2039 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2040 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2044 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2047 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2048 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2049 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2051 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2053 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2059 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2065 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2068 mode. Closes: #324161
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2072 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2075 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2076 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2077 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2078 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2083 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2086 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2087 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2088 is necesary for sanity.
2089 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2090 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2095 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2097 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2098 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2102 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2105 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2109 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2115 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2118 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2119 released, so use at your own risk.
2120 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2121 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2123 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2124 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2125 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2126 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2127 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2128 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2129 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2130 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2131 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2132 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2133 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2134 including twice per config file line now..
2135 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2136 and simplfy the rules file.
2137 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2138 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2139 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2141 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2142 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2146 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2149 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2156 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2160 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2163 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2170 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2171 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2172 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2173 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2174 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2175 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2179 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2182 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2183 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2184 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2189 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2192 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2193 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2198 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2201 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2202 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2203 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2208 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2211 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2212 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2213 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2217 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2223 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2230 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2233 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2234 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2235 unknown. Closes: #282924
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2239 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2246 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Spanish man page updates.
2249 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2254 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2263 * dh_desktop: reindent
2264 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2265 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2269 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2277 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2281 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2283 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2287 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2290 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2291 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2295 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2307 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2317 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2321 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2324 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2325 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2326 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2327 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2328 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2329 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2331 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2332 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2333 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2334 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2335 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2336 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2337 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2338 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2339 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2340 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2341 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2342 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2343 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2344 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2345 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2346 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2350 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2357 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2360 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2364 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2367 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2371 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2374 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2378 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2381 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2385 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2391 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2397 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2403 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2406 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2407 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2408 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2412 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2415 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2419 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2422 but occasionally right and necessary.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2426 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2429 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2430 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2431 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2432 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2433 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2437 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2440 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2442 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2443 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2444 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2445 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2446 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2447 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2448 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2449 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2450 postinst scripts for udebs.
2451 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2455 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2458 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2460 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2461 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2465 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2471 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2478 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2485 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2488 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2492 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2495 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2499 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2502 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2505 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2506 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2510 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2516 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2519 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2523 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2526 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2527 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2528 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2530 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2532 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2533 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2534 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2538 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2541 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2546 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2549 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2550 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2551 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2556 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2562 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2568 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2571 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2572 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2573 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2574 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2575 associated -dbg packages.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2579 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2582 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2586 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2589 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2593 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2596 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2600 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2603 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2611 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2618 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2623 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2626 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2630 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2634 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2635 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2636 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2637 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2638 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2639 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2640 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2641 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2642 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2643 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2647 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2650 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2658 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2659 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2663 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2666 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2667 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2672 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2675 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2679 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2682 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2686 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2689 out section number. Closes: #204731
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2693 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2700 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2706 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2712 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2715 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2716 removal. Closes: #204286
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2720 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2723 renaming. Closes: #203548
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2727 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2730 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2731 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2735 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2741 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2747 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2753 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2756 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2757 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2758 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2762 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2765 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2766 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2770 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2776 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2783 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2786 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2791 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2794 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2798 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2801 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2803 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2804 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2808 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2811 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2816 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2819 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2823 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2829 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2831 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2835 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2838 it break hard links (see #188663).
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2842 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2845 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2849 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2855 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2859 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2860 debconf-mergetemplates
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2864 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2867 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2871 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2874 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2878 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2881 * Update debhelper(1).
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2885 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2888 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2889 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2890 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2891 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2892 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2896 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2899 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2900 the shell. Closes: #178524
2901 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2905 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2908 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2912 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2915 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2919 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2922 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2923 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2924 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2925 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2930 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2933 files from installation.
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2937 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2940 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2941 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2945 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2948 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2952 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2955 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2959 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2965 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2971 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2975 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2976 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2978 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2982 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2985 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2986 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2987 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2988 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2992 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2995 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2999 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3002 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3003 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3007 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3011 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3016 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3022 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3026 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3027 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3028 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3033 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3036 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3037 practice. Closes: #163303
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3057 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3059 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3060 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3061 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3062 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3063 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3067 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3070 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3075 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3081 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3088 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3091 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3096 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3102 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3108 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3114 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3121 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3124 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3125 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3126 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3127 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3132 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3138 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3145 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3148 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3149 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3153 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3156 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3157 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3158 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3159 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3160 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3164 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3167 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3169 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3174 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3177 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3181 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3184 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3185 right thing. Closes: #150644
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3189 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * Stupid, evil typo.
3192 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3196 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3203 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3206 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3207 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3212 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3218 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3221 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3225 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3228 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3229 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3234 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3237 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3241 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3247 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3250 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3251 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3255 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3261 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Removing perl warning message.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3267 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3270 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3271 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3272 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3273 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3274 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3275 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3276 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3277 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3281 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3287 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3294 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3297 debconf-mergetemplate.
3298 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3299 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3303 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3306 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3307 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3308 dh_install, which ...
3309 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3310 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3311 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3312 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3313 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3314 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3315 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3316 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3317 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3318 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3319 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3320 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3321 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3322 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3323 other minor changes.
3324 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3325 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3326 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3327 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3328 course there's -X ..)
3329 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3330 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3331 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3333 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3334 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3335 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3336 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3337 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3342 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3348 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3351 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3355 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3361 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3367 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3373 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3379 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3382 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3383 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3384 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3385 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3387 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3388 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3392 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3398 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3401 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3405 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3408 upset. Closes: #131322
3410 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3412 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3415 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3416 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3417 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3418 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3419 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3420 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3421 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3422 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3423 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3424 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3425 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3426 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3427 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3428 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3429 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3431 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3435 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3438 - Better indenting of generated code.
3439 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3443 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3447 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3448 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3449 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3450 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3451 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3452 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3453 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3457 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3460 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3464 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3467 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3468 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3469 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3470 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3471 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3472 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3473 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3474 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3475 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3476 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3477 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3478 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3479 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3480 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3481 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3486 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3492 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3495 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3496 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3500 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3503 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3504 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3508 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3514 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3517 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3518 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3519 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3520 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3521 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3526 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3532 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3535 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3539 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3542 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3547 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3553 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3556 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3560 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3566 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3570 Also some indentation fixes.
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3574 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3577 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3578 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3579 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3580 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3581 Closes: #106514, #85520
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3585 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3591 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3597 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3603 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3609 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3615 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3618 change it in debhelper v4..
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3622 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3628 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3631 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3635 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3638 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3642 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3648 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3651 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3652 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3653 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3654 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3655 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3656 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3657 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3658 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3659 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3660 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3661 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3662 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3666 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3669 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3673 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3680 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3683 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3684 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3685 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3686 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3687 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3688 program those options go to. So, for example,
3689 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3690 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3691 something complex. Closes: #89311
3692 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3696 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3699 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3700 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3701 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3705 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3708 through loop. Closes: #98598
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3712 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * Missing semi-colon.
3715 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3716 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3720 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3723 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3724 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3725 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3729 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3732 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3733 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3737 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3740 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3744 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3747 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3748 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3752 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3755 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3756 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3757 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3761 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3764 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3765 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3766 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3770 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3773 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3777 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3783 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3789 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3795 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3801 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3804 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3808 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3811 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3812 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3813 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3814 followed. Closes: #85483
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3818 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3820 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3821 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3822 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3826 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3829 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3830 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3831 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3832 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3833 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3834 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3835 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3836 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3837 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3838 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3839 Closes: #88464, #77743
3840 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3841 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3842 us to deal with that gracefully.
3843 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3845 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3846 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3847 a while, Closes: #51225
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3851 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3857 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3860 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3864 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3868 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3873 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3876 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3877 don't make packlist files.
3878 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3879 debhelper coding standards.
3880 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3881 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3885 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3888 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3892 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3895 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3896 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3897 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3898 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3899 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3900 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3901 but is mildly deprecated.
3902 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3903 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3904 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3905 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3906 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3907 switching to statoverrides..
3908 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3909 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3910 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3911 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3912 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3913 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3915 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3916 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3917 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3918 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3919 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3920 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3921 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3922 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3923 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3925 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3926 variable names, pod man pages).
3927 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3928 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3929 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3930 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3931 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3932 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3933 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3937 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3943 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3950 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3953 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3957 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3959 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3960 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3961 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3965 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3967 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3968 they were previously ignored.
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3972 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3974 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3975 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3979 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3981 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3982 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3983 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3987 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3989 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3993 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3995 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3996 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4000 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4002 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4003 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4004 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4005 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4006 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4007 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4008 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4009 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4010 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4011 it is an obsolete program.
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4015 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4017 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4021 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4023 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4025 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4027 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4031 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4033 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4035 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4037 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4041 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4047 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * typo: Closes, #78567
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4053 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4059 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4065 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4068 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4069 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4070 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4071 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4072 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4076 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4079 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4084 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4087 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4088 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4089 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4090 backwards-compatibility.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4094 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4097 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4098 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4099 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4100 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4101 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4102 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4104 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4105 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4106 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4108 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4110 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4111 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4112 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4113 should now be raised to severity important..
4114 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4115 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4119 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4122 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4127 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4133 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4139 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4145 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4152 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4155 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4156 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4157 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4158 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4162 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4168 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4171 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4172 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4173 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4174 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4175 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4176 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4181 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4184 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4188 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4194 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4197 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4202 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4205 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4206 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4207 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4208 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4216 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4219 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4222 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4223 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4226 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4228 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4229 the TODO entry about it.
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4233 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4240 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4243 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4244 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4251 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4252 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4253 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4254 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4258 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4264 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4271 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4274 (this appears to be logal).
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4278 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4281 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4282 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4283 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4284 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4294 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4297 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4298 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4299 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4300 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4304 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4310 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4313 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4317 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4324 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4327 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4328 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4329 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4334 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4341 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4347 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4350 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4351 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4352 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4353 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4354 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4355 notice until v2 is complete.
4356 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4357 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4358 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4359 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4360 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4361 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4363 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4364 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4365 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4366 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4370 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4376 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4383 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4386 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4390 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4397 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4400 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4401 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4402 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4403 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4408 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4411 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4412 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4413 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4418 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4421 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4422 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4426 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4429 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4436 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4440 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4447 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4450 depend on the build and install targets.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4454 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4457 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4461 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4468 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4474 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4480 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4483 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4484 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4485 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4486 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4487 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4488 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4490 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4491 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4492 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4493 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4494 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4495 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4496 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4500 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4506 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4512 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4515 right place. Closes: #55065
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4519 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4526 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4529 * Copyright date updates.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4533 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4536 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4541 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4547 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4554 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4560 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4566 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4572 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4575 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4576 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4577 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4578 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4579 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4580 bits until all files have been registered.
4582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4584 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4586 * dh_installmanpages:
4587 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4588 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4589 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4590 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4591 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4592 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4593 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4594 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4595 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4596 otherwise change the result at all.
4598 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4599 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4600 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4601 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4602 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4607 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4613 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4616 act on files that don't exist.
4617 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4618 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4619 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4621 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4622 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4623 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4624 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4628 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4634 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4640 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4643 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4647 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4650 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4652 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4653 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4654 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4658 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4661 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4662 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4663 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4664 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4665 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4666 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4667 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4669 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4671 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4675 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4682 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4688 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4694 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4697 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4701 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4707 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4713 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4716 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4717 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4718 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4719 I made some changes, though:
4720 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4721 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4722 that is a clear violation of policy.
4723 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4724 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4725 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4726 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4727 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4728 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4729 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4730 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4731 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4733 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4737 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4743 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4746 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4750 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4753 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4754 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4759 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4765 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4772 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4775 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4776 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4777 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4778 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4779 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4780 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4781 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4785 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4791 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4795 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4796 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4800 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4806 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4809 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4813 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4816 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4817 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4821 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4823 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4828 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4832 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4836 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4839 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4840 for the dependancies to be generated.
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4844 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4847 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4851 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4854 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4855 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4856 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4861 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4864 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4865 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4869 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4875 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4881 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4883 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4884 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4888 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4894 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4897 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4898 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4899 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4900 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4901 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4902 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4903 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4904 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4905 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4906 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4907 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4908 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4912 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4914 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4915 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4916 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4918 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4919 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4920 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4921 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4922 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4923 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4925 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4926 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4930 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4933 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4937 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4944 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4947 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4952 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4955 for building debhelper.
4956 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4960 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4967 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4970 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4974 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4977 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4978 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4979 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4980 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4981 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4982 it's always available.
4984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4986 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4988 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4989 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4990 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4991 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4995 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4998 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4999 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5003 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5009 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5012 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5016 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5022 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5025 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5026 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5027 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5031 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5034 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5039 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5042 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5043 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5045 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5046 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5050 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5056 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5062 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5065 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5069 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5072 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5073 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5075 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5079 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5082 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5083 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5084 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5088 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5091 things if CDPATH is set.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5095 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5101 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5104 seems to make sense for the transition.
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5108 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5111 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5116 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5119 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5120 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5124 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5127 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5131 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5134 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5135 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5136 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5137 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5141 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5147 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5150 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5151 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5152 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5153 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5154 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5155 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5156 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5157 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5158 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5159 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5164 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5167 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5168 * README: mention doc/v2
5169 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5170 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5174 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5176 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5177 be using this script RSN.
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5181 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5184 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5185 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5186 more than 1 init script.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5190 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5193 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5197 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * Changed perl version detection.
5200 * Changed call to find.
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5204 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5207 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5209 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5214 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * Really include dh_installpam.
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5220 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5223 * Wrote man page for same.
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5227 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5230 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5231 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5236 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5243 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5246 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5247 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5248 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5249 x bit was being set!
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5253 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5256 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5257 well. (Closes: 38900)
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5261 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5263 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5264 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5265 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5269 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5275 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5277 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5282 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5288 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5291 help from Julian Gilbey.
5292 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5293 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5294 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5295 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5296 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5297 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5298 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5303 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5309 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5316 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5322 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5328 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5331 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5335 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5338 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5342 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5345 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5349 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5355 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5358 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5362 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5368 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5374 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5377 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5378 may be deleted. (#35845)
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5382 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * Various man page enhancements.
5385 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5390 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5393 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5394 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5398 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5401 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5402 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5403 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5405 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5406 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5411 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5417 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * Another very minor typo fix.
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5423 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * Very minor typo fix.
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5429 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5432 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5433 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5437 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5443 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5446 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5447 variables properly (#34850).
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5451 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5457 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5460 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5461 (automatically generated by build process).
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5465 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5467 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5471 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5474 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5475 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5477 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5481 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5484 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5488 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * README: minor typo fix.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5494 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5497 leave it at that. :-)
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5501 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5507 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5513 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5516 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5517 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5518 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5522 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5525 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5529 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5532 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5536 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5539 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5540 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5541 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5542 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5546 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5549 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5550 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5551 Craig Small for spotting this.
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5555 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5558 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5559 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5563 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5569 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5572 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5576 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5578 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5579 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5580 working on the last version of debhelper.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5584 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5587 being made. (#23255)
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5591 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5597 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5600 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5604 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5607 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5608 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5609 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5610 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5614 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5617 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5618 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5619 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5620 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5622 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5623 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5625 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5630 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5632 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5636 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5642 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5645 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5646 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5647 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5648 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5649 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5650 suidregister actually supports it.
5651 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5652 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5656 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5663 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5666 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5667 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5668 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5669 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5670 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5671 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5672 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5676 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5678 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5679 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5683 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5686 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5687 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5688 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5689 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5693 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5696 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5698 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5699 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5700 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5701 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5702 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5703 effect, either. (#30118)
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5707 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5713 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5716 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5717 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5721 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5727 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5730 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5731 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5732 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5733 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5737 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5740 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5741 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5745 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5751 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5754 packages, painlessly.
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5758 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5764 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5770 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5776 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * The perl conversion is complete.
5780 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5782 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5783 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5784 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5789 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5792 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5793 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5794 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5798 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5801 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5803 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5805 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5806 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5810 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5813 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5814 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5818 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5824 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5827 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5828 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5829 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5830 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5831 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5835 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5838 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5839 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5840 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5841 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5845 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5848 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5852 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5855 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5856 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5857 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5858 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5859 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5860 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5861 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5862 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5866 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5872 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5875 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5876 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5877 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5882 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5885 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5889 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5892 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5896 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5899 sections of shared libraries.
5900 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5901 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5902 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5903 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5904 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5905 things you don't want them to.
5906 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5907 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5911 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5914 shared libraries. (#26414)
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5918 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5920 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5921 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5922 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5923 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5927 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5931 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5933 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5934 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5935 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5936 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5937 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5941 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5944 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5948 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5951 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5952 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5957 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5959 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5960 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5964 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5967 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5968 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5969 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5970 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5971 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5973 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5974 remove debian/files properly.
5975 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5976 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5977 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5978 * Removed bogus menu file.
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5982 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5984 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5985 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5989 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5992 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5993 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5994 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5995 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5996 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5997 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6001 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6003 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6004 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6005 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6006 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6007 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6011 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6018 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6020 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6021 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6022 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6024 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6025 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6026 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6027 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6028 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6029 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6033 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6036 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6037 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6038 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6039 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6040 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6041 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6042 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6043 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6044 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6045 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6046 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6047 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6048 passed any switches.
6049 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6053 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6056 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6057 at all for a long while.
6058 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6059 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6060 large chunks in the process.
6061 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6062 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6063 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6068 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6071 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6073 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6078 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6080 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6081 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6082 that don't always have the same files in them.
6083 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6084 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6085 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6089 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6091 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6093 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6094 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6095 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6096 updating 27 man pages.
6097 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6098 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6099 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6100 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6101 programs act on. (#25247)
6103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6105 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6109 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6110 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6111 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6112 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6113 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6114 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6119 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6121 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6126 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6133 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6135 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6136 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6140 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6146 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6149 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6150 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6151 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6152 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6153 package by accident.
6154 * Is version 1.0 next?
6156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6158 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6160 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6161 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6162 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6166 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6169 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6170 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6171 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6172 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6173 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6175 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6180 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6182 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6183 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6184 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6188 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6190 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6191 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6195 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6197 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6198 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6199 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6204 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6206 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6210 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6212 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6213 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6214 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6219 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6221 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6225 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6228 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6229 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6230 past week. Thanks, guys!
6232 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6233 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6234 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6235 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6236 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6237 would do in the same situation.
6238 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6239 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6241 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6243 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6244 permissions changed.
6245 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6246 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6247 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6248 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6249 files are treated identically.
6250 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6251 * Minor man page fixes.
6252 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6253 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6254 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6258 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6260 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6261 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6262 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6263 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6264 use -X multiple times, too.
6265 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6266 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6270 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6272 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6273 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6274 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6278 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6280 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6281 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6285 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6287 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6288 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6289 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6290 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6291 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6292 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6293 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6294 shape if you're starting a new package.
6296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6298 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6300 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6301 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6305 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6307 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6308 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6309 because of missing symlinks.
6311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6313 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6315 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6319 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6321 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6322 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6323 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6324 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6325 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6326 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6328 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6329 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6333 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6335 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6336 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6337 to be changed after the fact :-)
6338 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6342 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6344 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6345 no version string after the -V.
6347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6349 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6351 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6352 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6357 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6359 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6360 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6364 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6366 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6367 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6368 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6369 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6370 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6371 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6372 I always welcome corrections!
6374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6376 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6378 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6382 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6384 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6385 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6386 * Documented this new switch.
6388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6390 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6392 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6393 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6394 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6395 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6396 no packages use the old behavior.
6398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6400 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6402 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6403 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6404 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6408 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6410 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6411 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6415 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6417 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6421 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6424 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6428 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6430 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6431 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6432 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6433 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6437 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6443 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6445 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6446 into the source package by accident.
6448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6450 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6452 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6453 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6454 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6455 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6456 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6457 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6458 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6463 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6465 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6467 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6468 inspired to implement some of it.
6469 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6473 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6475 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6476 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6480 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6482 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6483 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6484 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6488 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6491 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6492 have done.) (#17598)
6494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6496 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6498 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6502 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6504 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6508 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6510 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6511 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6515 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6517 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6518 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6519 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6523 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6525 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6526 argument processor in perl.
6527 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6528 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6529 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6530 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6534 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6536 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6537 type directories. (#16933)
6538 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6539 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6540 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6541 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6542 are supported. (#16935)
6543 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6548 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6550 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6551 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6555 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6557 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6559 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6560 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6561 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6562 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6563 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6564 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6568 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6571 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6572 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6574 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6575 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6576 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6577 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6578 a given package, or -i or -a.
6579 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6580 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6581 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6582 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6583 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6584 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6585 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6586 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6587 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6589 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6590 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6591 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6595 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6597 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6598 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6599 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6604 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6606 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6607 does not have a section.
6609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6611 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6613 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6614 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6615 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6616 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6620 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6622 * Fixed typo #16215.
6624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6626 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6628 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6629 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6630 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6631 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6632 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6633 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6638 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6640 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6641 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6642 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6643 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6648 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6650 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6654 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6656 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6660 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6662 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6663 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6664 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6665 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6666 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6667 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6668 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6672 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6674 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6678 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6680 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6681 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6685 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6687 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6688 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6689 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6690 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6694 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6696 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6697 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6701 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6703 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6707 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6709 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6710 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6714 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6716 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6717 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6721 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6723 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6727 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6729 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6730 postinst, postrm, etc.
6732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6734 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6736 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6740 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6742 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6743 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6744 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6745 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6746 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6747 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6751 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6753 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6754 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6755 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6759 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6761 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6762 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6766 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6768 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6769 installing package files into.
6770 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6775 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6777 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6779 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6783 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6785 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6789 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6791 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6792 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6796 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6798 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6799 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6800 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6801 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6802 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6806 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6808 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6809 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6810 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6811 multiple binary packages.
6812 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6813 should rebuild them with this version.
6814 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6818 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6820 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6821 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6825 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6827 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6828 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6832 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6834 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6835 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6836 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6837 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6838 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6839 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6840 debian/README.debian.
6841 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6842 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6843 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6844 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6845 in a few situations.)
6847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6849 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6851 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6855 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6857 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6861 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6863 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6864 * Fixed several man pages.
6866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6868 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6870 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6871 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6872 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6876 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6878 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6879 is ready for general use.
6880 * Added man pages for all commands.
6881 * Multiple binary package support.
6882 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6883 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6884 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6886 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6887 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6888 auto-installed as parameters.
6889 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6891 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6894 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6895 the package build directory it is to act on.
6896 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6897 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6898 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6902 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6904 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6905 ready to replace debstd.
6907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400