1 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
4 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
8 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
14 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
18 Also some indentation fixes.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
22 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
25 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
26 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
27 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
28 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
29 Closes: #106514, #85520
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
33 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Typo, Closes: #104405
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
39 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
45 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
47 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
51 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
53 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
57 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
63 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
66 change it in debhelper v4..
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
70 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
76 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
79 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
83 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
85 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
86 is not essential. Closes: #100430
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
90 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
96 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
99 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
100 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
101 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
102 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
103 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
104 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
105 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
106 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
107 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
108 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
109 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
110 prefixed with ".debhelper")
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
114 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
117 look just like shared libs, but are not.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
121 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
128 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
131 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
132 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
133 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
134 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
135 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
136 program those options go to. So, for example,
137 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
138 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
139 something complex. Closes: #89311
140 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
144 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
147 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
148 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
149 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
153 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
155 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
156 through loop. Closes: #98598
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
160 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Missing semi-colon.
163 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
164 this (dh_* should be called, really).
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
168 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
171 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
172 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
173 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
177 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
180 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
181 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
185 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
188 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
192 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
195 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
196 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
200 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
203 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
204 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
205 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
209 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
212 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
213 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
214 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
218 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
221 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
225 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
231 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Typo, Closes: #92407
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
237 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
243 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
249 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
252 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
256 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
259 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
260 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
261 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
262 followed. Closes: #85483
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
266 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
268 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
269 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
270 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
274 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
277 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
278 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
279 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
280 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
281 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
282 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
283 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
284 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
285 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
286 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
287 Closes: #88464, #77743
288 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
289 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
290 us to deal with that gracefully.
291 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
293 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
294 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
295 a while, Closes: #51225
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
299 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
305 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
308 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
312 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
316 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
321 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
324 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
325 don't make packlist files.
326 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
327 debhelper coding standards.
328 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
329 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
333 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
336 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
340 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
343 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
344 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
345 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
346 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
347 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
348 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
349 but is mildly deprecated.
350 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
351 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
352 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
353 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
354 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
355 switching to statoverrides..
356 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
357 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
358 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
359 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
360 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
361 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
363 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
364 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
365 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
366 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
367 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
368 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
369 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
370 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
371 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
373 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
374 variable names, pod man pages).
375 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
376 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
377 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
378 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
379 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
380 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
381 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
385 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
391 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
393 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
398 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
401 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
405 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
407 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
408 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
409 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
413 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
415 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
416 they were previously ignored.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
420 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
422 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
423 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
427 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
429 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
430 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
431 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
435 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
437 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
441 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
443 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
444 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
448 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
450 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
451 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
452 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
453 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
454 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
455 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
456 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
457 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
458 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
459 it is an obsolete program.
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
463 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
465 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
469 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
473 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
475 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
477 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
479 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
481 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
483 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
485 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
489 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
495 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
497 * typo: Closes, #78567
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
501 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
507 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
513 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
515 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
516 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
517 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
518 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
519 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
520 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
524 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
527 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
532 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
535 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
536 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
537 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
538 backwards-compatability.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
542 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
544 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
545 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
546 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
547 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
548 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
549 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
550 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
552 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
553 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
554 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
556 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
558 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
559 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
560 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
561 should now be raised to severity important..
562 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
563 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
567 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
569 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
570 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
575 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Typo, Closes: #77441
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
581 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Completed the fix from the last version.
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
587 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
593 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
595 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
600 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
603 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
604 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
605 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
606 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
610 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
616 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
619 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
620 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
621 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
622 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
623 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
624 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
629 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
632 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
636 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
638 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
642 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
645 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
650 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
653 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
654 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
655 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
656 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
660 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
664 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
667 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
670 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
671 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
674 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
676 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
677 the TODO entry about it.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
681 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
688 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
691 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
692 prevent that. Closes: #73052
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
696 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
698 * Typo, Closes: #72932
699 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
700 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
701 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
702 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
706 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
712 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
719 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
722 (this appears to be logal).
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
726 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
729 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
730 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
731 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
732 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
736 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
742 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
744 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
745 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
746 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
747 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
748 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
752 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
758 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
761 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
765 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
772 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
774 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
775 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
776 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
777 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
782 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
789 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
795 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
797 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
798 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
799 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
800 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
801 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
802 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
803 notice until v2 is complete.
804 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
805 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
806 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
807 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
808 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
809 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
811 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
812 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
813 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
814 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
818 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
824 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
831 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
834 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
838 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
845 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
848 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
849 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
850 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
851 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
856 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
859 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
860 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
861 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
866 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
869 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
870 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
874 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
877 just skip files that end in -\d+.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
881 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
883 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
884 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
888 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
895 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
897 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
898 depend on the build and install targets.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
902 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
905 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
909 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
916 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
922 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
928 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
931 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
932 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
933 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
934 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
935 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
936 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
938 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
939 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
940 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
941 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
942 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
943 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
944 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
948 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
954 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
960 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
963 right place. Closes: #55065
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
967 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
974 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Make all examples rules files executable.
977 * Copyright date updates.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
981 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
984 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
989 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
995 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1002 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1008 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1014 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1020 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1023 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1024 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1025 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1026 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1027 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1028 bits until all files have been registered.
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1032 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_installmanpages:
1035 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1036 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1037 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1038 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1039 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1040 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1041 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1042 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1043 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1044 otherwise change the result at all.
1046 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1047 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1048 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1049 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1050 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1055 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1061 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1064 act on files that don't exist.
1065 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1066 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1067 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1069 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1070 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1071 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1072 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1076 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1082 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1088 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1091 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1095 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1098 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1100 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1101 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1102 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1106 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1109 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1110 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1111 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1112 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1113 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1114 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1115 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1117 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1119 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1123 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1130 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1136 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1142 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1145 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1149 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1155 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1161 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1164 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1165 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1166 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1167 I made some changes, though:
1168 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1169 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1170 that is a clear violation of policy.
1171 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1172 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1173 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1174 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1175 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1176 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1177 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1178 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1179 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1181 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1185 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1191 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1194 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1198 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1201 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1202 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1207 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1213 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1220 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1223 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1224 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1225 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1226 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1227 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1228 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1229 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1233 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1239 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1243 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1244 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1248 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1254 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1257 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1261 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1264 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1265 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1269 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1271 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1276 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1280 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1284 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1287 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1288 for the dependancies to be generated.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1292 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1295 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1299 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1302 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1303 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1304 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1309 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1312 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1313 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1317 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1323 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1329 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1332 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1336 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1342 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1345 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1346 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1347 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1348 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1349 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1350 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1351 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1352 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1353 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1354 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1355 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1356 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1360 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1363 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1364 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1366 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1367 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1368 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1369 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1370 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1371 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1373 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1374 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1378 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1381 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1385 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1392 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1395 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1400 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1403 for building debhelper.
1404 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1408 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1415 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1418 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1422 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1425 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1426 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1427 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1428 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1429 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1430 it's always available.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1434 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1437 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1438 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1439 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1443 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1446 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1447 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1451 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1457 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1460 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1464 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1470 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1473 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1474 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1475 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1479 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1482 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1487 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1490 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1491 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1493 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1494 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1498 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1513 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1517 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1520 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1521 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1523 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1527 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1530 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1531 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1532 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1536 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1539 things if CDPATH is set.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1543 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1549 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1552 seems to make sense for the transition.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1556 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1559 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1564 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1567 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1568 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1572 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1575 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1579 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1582 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1583 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1584 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1585 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1589 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1595 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1598 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1599 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1600 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1601 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1602 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1603 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1604 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1605 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1606 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1607 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1612 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1615 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1616 * README: mention doc/v2
1617 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1618 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1622 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1624 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1625 be using this script RSN.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1629 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1632 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1633 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1634 more than 1 init script.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1638 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1641 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1645 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Changed perl version detection.
1648 * Changed call to find.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1652 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1655 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1657 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1662 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Really include dh_installpam.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1668 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1671 * Wrote man page for same.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1675 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1678 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1679 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1684 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1691 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1694 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1695 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1696 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1697 x bit was being set!
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1701 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1704 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1705 well. (Closes: 38900)
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1709 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1712 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1713 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1717 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1723 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1730 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1736 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1739 help from Julian Gilbey.
1740 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1741 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1742 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1743 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1744 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1745 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1746 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1751 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1757 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1764 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1770 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1776 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1779 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1783 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1786 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1790 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1793 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1797 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1803 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1806 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1810 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1816 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1822 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1825 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1826 may be deleted. (#35845)
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1830 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Various man page enhancements.
1833 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1838 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1841 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1842 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1846 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1849 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1850 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1851 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1853 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1854 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1859 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1865 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Another very minor typo fix.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1871 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Very minor typo fix.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1877 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1880 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1881 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1885 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1891 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1894 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1895 variables properly (#34850).
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1899 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1905 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1908 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1909 (automatically generated by build process).
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1913 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1915 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1919 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1922 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1923 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1925 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1929 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1932 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1936 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * README: minor typo fix.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1942 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1945 leave it at that. :-)
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1949 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1955 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1961 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1964 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1965 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1966 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1970 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1973 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1977 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1980 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1984 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1987 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1988 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1989 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1990 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1994 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1997 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1998 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1999 Craig Small for spotting this.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2003 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2006 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2007 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2011 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2017 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2020 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2024 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2026 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2027 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2028 working on the last version of debhelper.
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2032 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2035 being made. (#23255)
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2039 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2045 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2048 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2052 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2055 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2056 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2057 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2058 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2062 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2065 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2066 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2067 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2068 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2070 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2071 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2073 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2078 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2084 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2090 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2093 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2094 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2095 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2096 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2097 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2098 suidregister actually supports it.
2099 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2100 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2104 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2111 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2114 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2115 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2116 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2117 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2118 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2119 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2120 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2124 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2126 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2127 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2131 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2134 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2135 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2136 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2137 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2141 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2144 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2146 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2147 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2148 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2149 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2150 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2151 effect, either. (#30118)
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2155 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2161 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2164 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2165 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2169 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2175 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2178 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2179 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2180 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2181 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2185 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2188 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2189 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2193 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2199 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2202 packages, painlessly.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2206 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2212 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2218 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2224 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * The perl conversion is complete.
2228 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2230 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2231 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2232 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2237 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2240 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2241 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2242 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2246 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2249 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2251 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2253 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2254 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2258 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2261 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2262 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2266 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2272 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2275 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2276 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2277 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2278 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2279 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2283 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2286 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2287 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2288 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2289 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2293 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2296 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2300 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2303 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2304 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2305 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2306 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2307 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2308 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2309 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2310 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2314 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2320 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2323 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2324 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2325 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2330 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2333 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2337 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2340 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2344 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2347 sections of shared libraries.
2348 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2349 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2350 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2351 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2352 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2353 things you don't want them to.
2354 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2355 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2359 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2362 shared libraries. (#26414)
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2366 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2368 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2369 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2370 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2371 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2375 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2379 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2381 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2382 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2383 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2384 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2385 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2389 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2392 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2396 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2399 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2400 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2405 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2408 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2412 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2415 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2416 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2417 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2418 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2419 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2421 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2422 remove debian/files properly.
2423 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2424 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2425 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2426 * Removed bogus menu file.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2430 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2433 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2437 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2440 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2441 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2442 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2443 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2444 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2445 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2449 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2452 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2453 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2454 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2455 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2459 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2466 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2469 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2470 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2472 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2473 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2474 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2475 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2476 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2477 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2481 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2484 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2485 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2486 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2487 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2488 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2489 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2490 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2491 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2492 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2493 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2494 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2495 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2496 passed any switches.
2497 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2501 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2504 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2505 at all for a long while.
2506 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2507 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2508 large chunks in the process.
2509 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2510 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2511 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2516 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2519 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2521 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2526 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2529 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2530 that don't always have the same files in them.
2531 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2532 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2533 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2537 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2541 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2542 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2543 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2544 updating 27 man pages.
2545 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2546 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2547 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2548 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2549 programs act on. (#25247)
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2553 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2557 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2558 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2559 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2560 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2561 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2562 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2567 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2574 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2581 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2584 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2588 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2594 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2597 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2598 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2599 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2600 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2601 package by accident.
2602 * Is version 1.0 next?
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2606 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2609 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2610 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2614 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2617 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2618 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2619 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2620 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2621 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2623 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2628 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2631 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2632 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2636 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2639 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2643 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2646 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2647 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2652 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2658 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2661 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2662 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2667 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2673 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2676 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2677 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2678 past week. Thanks, guys!
2680 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2681 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2682 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2683 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2684 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2685 would do in the same situation.
2686 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2687 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2689 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2691 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2692 permissions changed.
2693 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2694 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2695 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2696 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2697 files are treated identically.
2698 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2699 * Minor man page fixes.
2700 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2701 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2702 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2706 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2709 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2710 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2711 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2712 use -X multiple times, too.
2713 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2714 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2718 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2721 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2722 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2726 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2729 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2733 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2736 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2737 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2738 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2739 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2740 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2741 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2742 shape if you're starting a new package.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2746 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2749 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2753 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2756 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2757 because of missing symlinks.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2761 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2767 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2770 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2771 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2772 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2773 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2774 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2776 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2777 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2781 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2783 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2784 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2785 to be changed after the fact :-)
2786 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2790 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2792 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2793 no version string after the -V.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2797 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2799 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2800 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2805 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2808 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2812 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2815 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2816 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2817 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2818 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2819 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2820 I always welcome corrections!
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2824 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2830 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2833 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2834 * Documented this new switch.
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2838 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2841 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2842 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2843 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2844 no packages use the old behavior.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2848 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2851 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2852 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2856 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2859 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2863 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2869 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2872 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2876 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2879 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2880 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2881 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2885 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2891 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2894 into the source package by accident.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2898 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2901 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2902 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2903 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2904 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2905 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2906 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2911 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2915 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2916 inspired to implement some of it.
2917 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2921 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2924 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2928 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2931 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2932 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2936 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2939 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2940 have done.) (#17598)
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2944 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2950 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2956 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2959 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2963 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2966 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2967 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2971 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2974 argument processor in perl.
2975 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2976 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2977 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2978 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2982 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2985 type directories. (#16933)
2986 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2987 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2988 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2989 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2990 are supported. (#16935)
2991 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2996 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2999 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3003 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3007 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3008 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3009 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3010 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3011 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3012 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3016 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3019 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3020 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3022 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3023 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3024 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3025 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3026 a given package, or -i or -a.
3027 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3028 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3029 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3030 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3031 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3032 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3033 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3034 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3035 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3037 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3038 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3039 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3043 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3046 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3047 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3052 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3055 does not have a section.
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3059 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3062 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3063 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3064 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3068 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Fixed typo #16215.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3074 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3077 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3078 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3079 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3080 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3081 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3086 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3089 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3090 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3091 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3096 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3102 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3108 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3111 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3112 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3113 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3114 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3115 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3116 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3120 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3126 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3129 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3133 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3136 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3137 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3138 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3142 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3145 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3149 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3155 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3158 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3162 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3165 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3169 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3175 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3178 postinst, postrm, etc.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3182 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3188 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3191 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3192 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3193 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3194 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3195 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3199 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3202 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3203 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3207 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3210 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3214 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3217 installing package files into.
3218 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3223 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3227 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3231 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3237 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3240 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3244 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3247 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3248 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3249 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3250 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3254 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3256 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3257 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3258 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3259 multiple binary packages.
3260 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3261 should rebuild them with this version.
3262 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3266 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3269 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3273 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3276 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3280 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3283 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3284 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3285 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3286 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3287 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3288 debian/README.debian.
3289 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3290 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3291 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3292 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3293 in a few situations.)
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3297 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3303 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3309 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3312 * Fixed several man pages.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3316 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3319 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3320 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3324 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3327 is ready for general use.
3328 * Added man pages for all commands.
3329 * Multiple binary package support.
3330 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3331 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3332 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3334 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3335 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3336 auto-installed as parameters.
3337 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3339 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3342 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3343 the package build directory it is to act on.
3344 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3345 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3346 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3350 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3352 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3353 ready to replace debstd.
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400