1 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
4 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Nov 2002 19:09:00 -0500
8 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
11 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
12 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
16 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
20 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
25 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
31 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
35 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
36 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
37 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
42 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
45 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
46 practice. Closes: #163303
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
50 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
56 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
63 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
65 * The "reverse hangover" release.
66 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
68 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
69 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
70 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
71 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
72 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
76 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
78 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
79 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
84 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
90 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
97 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
100 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
105 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
111 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
117 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
123 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
130 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
133 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
134 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
135 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
136 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
141 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Typo, Closes: #155323
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
147 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
154 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
157 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
158 * Removed dh_installxaw.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
162 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
165 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
166 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
167 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
168 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
169 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
173 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
176 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
178 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
183 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
185 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
186 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
190 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
193 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
194 right thing. Closes: #150644
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
198 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
201 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
205 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
207 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
212 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
215 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
216 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
221 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
223 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
227 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
229 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
230 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
234 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
237 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
238 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
243 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
246 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
250 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
256 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
259 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
260 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
264 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
266 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
270 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Removing perl warning message.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
276 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
279 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
280 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
281 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
282 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
283 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
284 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
285 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
286 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
290 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
292 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
296 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
303 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
306 debconf-mergetemplate.
307 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
308 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
312 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
315 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
316 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
317 dh_install, which ...
318 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
319 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
320 mess, as it uses debian/install.
321 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
322 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
323 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
324 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
325 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
326 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
327 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
328 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
329 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
330 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
331 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
333 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
334 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
335 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
336 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
337 course there's -X ..)
338 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
339 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
340 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
342 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
343 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
344 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
345 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
346 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
351 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
357 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Typo, Closes: #139176
360 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
364 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
370 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
376 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
382 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
388 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
391 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
392 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
393 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
394 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
396 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
397 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
401 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
407 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Typo, Closes: #132454
410 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
414 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
417 upset. Closes: #131322
419 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
421 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
424 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
425 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
426 line, as well as in debian/rules.
427 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
428 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
429 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
430 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
431 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
432 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
433 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
434 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
435 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
436 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
437 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
438 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
440 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
444 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
446 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
447 - Better indenting of generated code.
448 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
452 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
456 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
457 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
458 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
459 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
460 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
461 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
462 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
466 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
469 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
473 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
476 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
477 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
478 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
479 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
480 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
481 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
482 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
483 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
484 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
485 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
486 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
487 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
488 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
489 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
490 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
495 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
501 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
504 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
505 * fixed dh_testdir man page
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
509 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Typo, Closes: #122679
512 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
513 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
517 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
523 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
526 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
527 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
528 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
529 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
530 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
535 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
537 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
541 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
544 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
548 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
551 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
556 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Typo, Closes: #114135
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
562 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
565 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
569 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
575 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
579 Also some indentation fixes.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
583 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
586 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
587 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
588 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
589 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
590 Closes: #106514, #85520
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
594 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
596 * Typo, Closes: #104405
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
600 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
606 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
608 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
612 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
618 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
624 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
627 change it in debhelper v4..
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
631 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
637 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
640 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
644 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
647 is not essential. Closes: #100430
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
651 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
657 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
660 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
661 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
662 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
663 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
664 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
665 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
666 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
667 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
668 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
669 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
670 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
671 prefixed with ".debhelper")
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
675 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
678 look just like shared libs, but are not.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
682 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
689 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
692 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
693 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
694 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
695 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
696 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
697 program those options go to. So, for example,
698 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
699 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
700 something complex. Closes: #89311
701 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
705 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
708 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
709 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
710 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
714 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
716 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
717 through loop. Closes: #98598
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
721 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Missing semi-colon.
724 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
725 this (dh_* should be called, really).
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
729 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
732 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
733 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
734 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
738 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
741 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
742 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
746 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
749 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
753 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
756 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
757 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
761 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
764 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
765 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
766 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
770 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
773 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
774 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
775 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
779 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
782 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
786 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
792 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Typo, Closes: #92407
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
798 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
804 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
810 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
813 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
817 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
820 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
821 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
822 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
823 followed. Closes: #85483
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
827 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
829 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
830 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
831 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
835 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
838 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
839 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
840 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
841 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
842 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
843 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
844 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
845 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
846 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
847 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
848 Closes: #88464, #77743
849 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
850 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
851 us to deal with that gracefully.
852 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
854 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
855 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
856 a while, Closes: #51225
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
860 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
866 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
869 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
873 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
877 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
882 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
885 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
886 don't make packlist files.
887 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
888 debhelper coding standards.
889 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
890 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
894 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
897 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
901 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
904 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
905 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
906 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
907 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
908 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
909 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
910 but is mildly deprecated.
911 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
912 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
913 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
914 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
915 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
916 switching to statoverrides..
917 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
918 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
919 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
920 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
921 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
922 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
924 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
925 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
926 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
927 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
928 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
929 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
930 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
931 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
932 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
934 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
935 variable names, pod man pages).
936 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
937 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
938 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
939 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
940 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
941 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
942 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
946 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
952 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
959 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
962 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
966 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
968 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
969 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
970 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
974 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
976 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
977 they were previously ignored.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
981 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
983 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
984 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
988 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
990 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
991 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
992 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
996 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
998 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1002 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1004 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1005 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1009 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1011 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1012 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1013 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1014 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1015 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1016 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1017 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1018 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1019 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1020 it is an obsolete program.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1024 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1026 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1030 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1034 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1036 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1040 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1042 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1044 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1046 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1050 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1056 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * typo: Closes, #78567
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1062 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1068 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1074 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1077 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1078 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1079 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1080 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1081 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1085 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1088 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1093 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1096 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1097 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1098 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1099 backwards-compatability.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1103 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1106 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1107 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1108 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1109 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1110 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1111 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1113 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1114 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1115 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1117 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1119 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1120 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1121 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1122 should now be raised to severity important..
1123 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1124 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1128 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1131 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1136 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1142 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1148 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1154 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1161 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1164 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1165 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1166 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1167 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1171 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1177 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1180 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1181 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1182 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1183 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1184 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1185 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1190 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1193 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1197 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1203 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1206 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1211 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1214 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1215 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1216 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1217 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1221 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1225 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1228 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1231 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1232 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1235 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1237 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1238 the TODO entry about it.
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1242 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1249 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1252 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1253 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1257 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1260 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1261 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1262 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1263 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1267 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1273 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1280 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1283 (this appears to be logal).
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1287 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1290 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1291 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1292 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1293 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1297 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1303 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1306 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1307 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1308 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1309 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1313 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1319 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1322 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1326 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1333 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1336 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1337 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1338 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1343 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1350 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1356 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1359 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1360 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1361 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1362 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1363 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1364 notice until v2 is complete.
1365 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1366 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1367 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1368 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1369 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1370 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1372 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1373 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1374 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1375 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1379 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1385 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1392 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1395 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1399 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1406 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1409 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1410 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1411 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1412 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1417 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1420 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1421 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1422 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1427 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1430 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1431 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1435 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1438 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1442 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1445 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1449 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1456 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1459 depend on the build and install targets.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1463 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1466 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1470 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1477 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1483 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1489 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1492 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1493 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1494 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1495 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1496 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1497 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1499 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1500 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1501 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1502 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1503 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1504 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1505 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1509 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1515 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1521 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1524 right place. Closes: #55065
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1528 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1535 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1538 * Copyright date updates.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1542 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1545 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1550 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1556 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1563 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1569 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1575 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1581 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1584 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1585 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1586 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1587 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1588 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1589 bits until all files have been registered.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1593 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_installmanpages:
1596 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1597 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1598 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1599 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1600 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1601 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1602 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1603 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1604 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1605 otherwise change the result at all.
1607 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1608 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1609 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1610 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1611 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1616 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1622 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1625 act on files that don't exist.
1626 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1627 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1628 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1630 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1631 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1632 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1633 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1637 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1643 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1649 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1652 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1656 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1659 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1661 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1662 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1663 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1667 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1670 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1671 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1672 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1673 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1674 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1675 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1676 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1678 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1680 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1684 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1691 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1697 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1703 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1706 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1710 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1716 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1722 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1725 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1726 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1727 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1728 I made some changes, though:
1729 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1730 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1731 that is a clear violation of policy.
1732 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1733 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1734 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1735 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1736 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1737 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1738 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1739 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1740 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1742 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1746 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1752 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1755 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1759 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1762 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1763 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1768 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1774 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1781 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1784 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1785 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1786 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1787 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1788 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1789 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1790 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1794 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1800 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1804 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1805 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1809 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1818 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1822 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1825 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1826 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1830 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1832 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1837 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1841 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1845 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1848 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1849 for the dependancies to be generated.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1853 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1856 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1860 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1863 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1864 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1865 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1870 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1873 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1874 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1878 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1884 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1890 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1893 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1897 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1903 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1906 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1907 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1908 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1909 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1910 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1911 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1912 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1913 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1914 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1915 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1916 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1917 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1921 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1924 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1925 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1927 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1928 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1929 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1930 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1931 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1932 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1934 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1935 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1939 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1942 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1946 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1953 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1956 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1961 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1964 for building debhelper.
1965 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1969 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1976 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1979 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1983 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1986 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1987 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1988 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1989 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1990 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1991 it's always available.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1995 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1998 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1999 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2000 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2004 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2007 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2008 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2012 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2018 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2021 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2025 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2031 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2034 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2035 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2036 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2040 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2043 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2048 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2051 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2052 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2054 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2055 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2059 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2065 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2071 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2074 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2078 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2081 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2082 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2084 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2088 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2091 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2092 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2093 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2097 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2100 things if CDPATH is set.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2104 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2110 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2113 seems to make sense for the transition.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2117 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2120 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2125 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2128 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2129 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2133 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2136 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2140 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2143 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2144 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2145 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2146 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2150 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2156 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2159 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2160 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2161 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2162 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2163 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2164 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2165 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2166 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2167 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2168 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2173 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2176 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2177 * README: mention doc/v2
2178 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2179 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2183 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2185 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2186 be using this script RSN.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2190 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2193 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2194 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2195 more than 1 init script.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2199 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2202 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2206 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Changed perl version detection.
2209 * Changed call to find.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2213 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2216 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2218 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2223 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Really include dh_installpam.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2229 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2232 * Wrote man page for same.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2236 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2239 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2240 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2245 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2252 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2255 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2256 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2257 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2258 x bit was being set!
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2262 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2265 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2266 well. (Closes: 38900)
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2270 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2273 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2274 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2278 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2284 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2291 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2297 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2300 help from Julian Gilbey.
2301 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2302 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2303 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2304 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2305 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2306 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2307 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2312 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2318 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2325 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2331 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2337 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2340 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2344 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2347 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2351 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2354 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2358 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2364 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2367 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2371 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2377 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2383 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2386 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2387 may be deleted. (#35845)
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2391 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Various man page enhancements.
2394 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2399 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2402 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2403 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2407 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2410 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2411 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2412 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2414 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2415 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2420 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2426 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * Another very minor typo fix.
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2432 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * Very minor typo fix.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2438 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2441 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2442 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2446 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2452 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2455 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2456 variables properly (#34850).
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2460 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2466 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2469 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2470 (automatically generated by build process).
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2474 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2476 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2480 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2483 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2484 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2486 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2490 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2493 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2497 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * README: minor typo fix.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2503 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2506 leave it at that. :-)
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2510 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2516 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2522 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2525 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2526 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2527 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2531 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2534 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2538 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2541 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2545 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2548 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2549 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2550 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2551 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2555 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2558 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2559 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2560 Craig Small for spotting this.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2564 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2567 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2568 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2572 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2578 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2581 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2585 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2587 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2588 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2589 working on the last version of debhelper.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2593 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2596 being made. (#23255)
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2600 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2606 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2609 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2613 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2616 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2617 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2618 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2619 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2623 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2626 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2627 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2628 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2629 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2631 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2632 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2634 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2639 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2645 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2651 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2654 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2655 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2656 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2657 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2658 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2659 suidregister actually supports it.
2660 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2661 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2665 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2672 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2675 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2676 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2677 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2678 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2679 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2680 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2681 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2685 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2687 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2688 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2692 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2695 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2696 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2697 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2698 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2702 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2705 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2707 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2708 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2709 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2710 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2711 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2712 effect, either. (#30118)
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2716 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2722 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2725 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2726 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2730 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2736 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2739 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2740 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2741 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2742 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2746 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2749 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2750 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2754 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2760 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2763 packages, painlessly.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2767 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2773 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2779 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2785 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * The perl conversion is complete.
2789 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2791 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2792 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2793 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2798 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2801 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2802 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2803 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2807 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2810 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2812 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2814 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2815 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2819 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2822 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2823 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2827 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2833 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2836 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2837 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2838 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2839 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2840 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2844 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2847 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2848 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2849 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2850 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2854 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2857 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2861 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2864 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2865 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2866 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2867 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2868 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2869 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2870 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2871 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2875 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2881 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2884 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2885 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2886 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2891 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2894 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2898 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2901 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2905 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2908 sections of shared libraries.
2909 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2910 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2911 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2912 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2913 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2914 things you don't want them to.
2915 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2916 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2920 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2923 shared libraries. (#26414)
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2927 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2929 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2930 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2931 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2932 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2936 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2940 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2942 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2943 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2944 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2945 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2946 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2950 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2953 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2957 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2960 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2961 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2966 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2969 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2973 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2976 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2977 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2978 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2979 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2980 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2982 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2983 remove debian/files properly.
2984 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2985 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2986 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2987 * Removed bogus menu file.
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2991 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2994 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2998 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3001 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3002 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3003 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3004 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3005 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3006 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3010 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3013 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3014 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3015 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3016 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3020 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3027 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3030 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3031 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3033 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3034 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3035 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3036 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3037 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3038 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3042 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3045 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3046 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3047 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3048 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3049 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3050 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3051 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3052 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3053 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3054 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3055 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3056 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3057 passed any switches.
3058 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3062 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3065 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3066 at all for a long while.
3067 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3068 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3069 large chunks in the process.
3070 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3071 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3072 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3077 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3080 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3082 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3087 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3090 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3091 that don't always have the same files in them.
3092 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3093 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3094 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3098 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3102 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3103 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3104 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3105 updating 27 man pages.
3106 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3107 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3108 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3109 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3110 programs act on. (#25247)
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3114 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3118 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3119 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3120 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3121 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3122 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3123 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3128 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3135 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3142 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3145 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3149 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3155 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3158 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3159 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3160 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3161 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3162 package by accident.
3163 * Is version 1.0 next?
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3167 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3170 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3171 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3175 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3178 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3179 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3180 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3181 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3182 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3184 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3189 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3192 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3193 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3197 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3200 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3204 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3207 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3208 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3213 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3219 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3222 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3223 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3228 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3234 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3237 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3238 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3239 past week. Thanks, guys!
3241 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3242 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3243 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3244 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3245 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3246 would do in the same situation.
3247 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3248 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3250 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3252 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3253 permissions changed.
3254 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3255 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3256 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3257 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3258 files are treated identically.
3259 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3260 * Minor man page fixes.
3261 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3262 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3263 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3267 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3270 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3271 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3272 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3273 use -X multiple times, too.
3274 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3275 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3279 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3282 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3283 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3287 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3290 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3294 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3297 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3298 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3299 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3300 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3301 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3302 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3303 shape if you're starting a new package.
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3307 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3310 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3314 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3317 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3318 because of missing symlinks.
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3322 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3328 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3331 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3332 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3333 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3334 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3335 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3337 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3338 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3342 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3344 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3345 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3346 to be changed after the fact :-)
3347 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3351 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3354 no version string after the -V.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3358 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3360 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3361 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3366 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3369 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3373 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3376 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3377 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3378 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3379 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3380 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3381 I always welcome corrections!
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3385 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3391 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3394 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3395 * Documented this new switch.
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3399 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3402 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3403 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3404 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3405 no packages use the old behavior.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3409 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3412 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3413 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3417 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3420 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3424 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3430 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3433 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3437 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3440 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3441 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3442 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3446 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3452 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3455 into the source package by accident.
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3459 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3462 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3463 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3464 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3465 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3466 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3467 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3472 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3476 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3477 inspired to implement some of it.
3478 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3482 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3485 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3489 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3492 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3493 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3497 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3500 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3501 have done.) (#17598)
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3505 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3511 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3517 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3520 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3524 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3527 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3528 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3532 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3535 argument processor in perl.
3536 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3537 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3538 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3539 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3543 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3546 type directories. (#16933)
3547 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3548 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3549 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3550 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3551 are supported. (#16935)
3552 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3557 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3560 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3564 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3568 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3569 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3570 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3571 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3572 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3573 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3577 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3580 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3581 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3583 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3584 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3585 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3586 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3587 a given package, or -i or -a.
3588 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3589 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3590 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3591 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3592 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3593 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3594 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3595 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3596 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3598 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3599 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3600 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3604 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3607 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3608 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3613 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3616 does not have a section.
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3620 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3623 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3624 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3625 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3629 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * Fixed typo #16215.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3635 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3638 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3639 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3640 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3641 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3642 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3647 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3650 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3651 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3652 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3657 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3663 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3669 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3672 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3673 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3674 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3675 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3676 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3677 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3681 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3687 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3690 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3694 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3697 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3698 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3699 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3703 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3706 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3710 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3716 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3719 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3723 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3726 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3730 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3736 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3739 postinst, postrm, etc.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3743 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3749 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3752 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3753 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3754 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3755 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3756 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3760 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3763 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3764 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3768 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3771 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3775 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3778 installing package files into.
3779 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3784 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3788 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3792 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3798 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3801 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3805 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3808 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3809 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3810 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3811 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3815 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3817 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3818 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3819 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3820 multiple binary packages.
3821 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3822 should rebuild them with this version.
3823 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3827 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3830 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3834 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3837 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3841 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3844 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3845 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3846 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3847 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3848 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3849 debian/README.debian.
3850 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3851 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3852 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3853 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3854 in a few situations.)
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3858 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3864 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3870 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3873 * Fixed several man pages.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3877 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3880 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3881 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3885 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3888 is ready for general use.
3889 * Added man pages for all commands.
3890 * Multiple binary package support.
3891 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3892 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3893 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3895 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3896 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3897 auto-installed as parameters.
3898 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3900 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3903 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3904 the package build directory it is to act on.
3905 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3906 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3907 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3911 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3913 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3914 ready to replace debstd.
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400