1 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
8 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
11 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
12 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
17 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
19 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
23 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
26 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
30 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
33 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
34 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
39 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
42 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
46 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
52 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
55 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
56 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
60 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
66 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Removing perl warning message.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
72 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
75 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
76 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
77 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
78 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
79 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
80 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
81 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
82 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
86 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
88 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
92 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
99 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
102 debconf-mergetemplate.
103 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
104 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
108 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
111 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
112 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
113 dh_install, which ...
114 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
115 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
116 mess, as it uses debian/install.
117 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
118 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
119 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
120 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
121 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
122 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
123 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
124 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
125 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
126 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
127 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
129 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
130 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
131 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
132 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
133 course there's -X ..)
134 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
135 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
136 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
138 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
139 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
140 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
141 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
142 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
147 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
153 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Typo, Closes: #139176
156 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
160 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
166 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
172 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
178 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
184 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
187 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
188 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
189 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
190 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
192 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
193 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
197 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
203 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Typo, Closes: #132454
206 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
210 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
213 upset. Closes: #131322
215 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
217 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
220 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
221 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
222 line, as well as in debian/rules.
223 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
224 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
225 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
226 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
227 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
228 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
229 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
230 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
231 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
232 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
233 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
234 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
236 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
240 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
243 - Better indenting of generated code.
244 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
248 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
252 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
253 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
254 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
255 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
256 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
257 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
258 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
262 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
265 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
269 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
272 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
273 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
274 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
275 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
276 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
277 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
278 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
279 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
280 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
281 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
282 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
283 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
284 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
285 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
286 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
291 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
297 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
300 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
301 * fixed dh_testdir man page
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
305 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
307 * Typo, Closes: #122679
308 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
309 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
313 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
319 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
322 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
323 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
324 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
325 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
326 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
331 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
333 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
337 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
340 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
344 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
346 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
347 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
352 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Typo, Closes: #114135
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
358 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
361 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
365 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
371 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
375 Also some indentation fixes.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
379 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
382 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
383 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
384 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
385 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
386 Closes: #106514, #85520
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
390 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Typo, Closes: #104405
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
396 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
402 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
404 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
408 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
414 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
420 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
423 change it in debhelper v4..
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
427 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
433 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
436 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
440 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
443 is not essential. Closes: #100430
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
447 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
453 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
456 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
457 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
458 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
459 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
460 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
461 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
462 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
463 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
464 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
465 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
466 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
467 prefixed with ".debhelper")
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
471 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
474 look just like shared libs, but are not.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
478 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
485 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
488 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
489 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
490 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
491 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
492 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
493 program those options go to. So, for example,
494 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
495 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
496 something complex. Closes: #89311
497 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
501 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
504 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
505 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
506 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
510 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
513 through loop. Closes: #98598
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
517 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Missing semi-colon.
520 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
521 this (dh_* should be called, really).
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
525 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
528 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
529 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
530 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
534 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
537 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
538 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
542 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
545 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
549 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
552 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
553 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
557 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
560 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
561 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
562 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
566 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
569 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
570 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
571 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
575 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
578 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
582 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
588 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Typo, Closes: #92407
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
594 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
600 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
606 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
609 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
613 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
616 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
617 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
618 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
619 followed. Closes: #85483
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
623 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
625 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
626 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
627 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
631 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
634 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
635 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
636 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
637 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
638 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
639 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
640 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
641 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
642 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
643 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
644 Closes: #88464, #77743
645 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
646 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
647 us to deal with that gracefully.
648 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
650 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
651 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
652 a while, Closes: #51225
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
656 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
662 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
665 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
669 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
673 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
678 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
681 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
682 don't make packlist files.
683 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
684 debhelper coding standards.
685 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
686 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
690 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
693 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
697 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
700 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
701 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
702 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
703 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
704 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
705 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
706 but is mildly deprecated.
707 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
708 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
709 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
710 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
711 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
712 switching to statoverrides..
713 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
714 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
715 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
716 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
717 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
718 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
720 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
721 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
722 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
723 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
724 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
725 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
726 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
727 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
728 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
730 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
731 variable names, pod man pages).
732 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
733 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
734 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
735 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
736 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
737 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
738 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
742 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
748 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
755 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
758 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
762 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
764 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
765 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
766 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
770 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
772 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
773 they were previously ignored.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
777 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
779 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
780 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
784 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
786 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
787 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
788 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
792 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
794 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
798 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
800 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
801 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
805 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
807 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
808 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
809 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
810 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
811 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
812 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
813 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
814 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
815 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
816 it is an obsolete program.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
820 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
822 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
826 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
830 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
832 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
836 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
838 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
840 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
842 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
846 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
852 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
854 * typo: Closes, #78567
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
858 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
864 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
870 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
872 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
873 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
874 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
875 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
876 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
877 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
881 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
883 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
884 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
889 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
891 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
892 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
893 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
894 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
895 backwards-compatability.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
899 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
901 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
902 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
903 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
904 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
905 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
906 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
907 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
909 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
910 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
911 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
913 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
915 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
916 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
917 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
918 should now be raised to severity important..
919 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
920 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
924 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
927 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
932 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
934 * Typo, Closes: #77441
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
938 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
940 * Completed the fix from the last version.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
944 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
950 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
952 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
957 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
960 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
961 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
962 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
963 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
967 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
973 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
976 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
977 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
978 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
979 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
980 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
981 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
986 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
989 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
993 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
999 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1002 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1007 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1010 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1011 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1012 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1013 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1017 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1021 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1024 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1027 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1028 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1031 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1033 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1034 the TODO entry about it.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1038 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1045 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1048 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1049 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1053 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1056 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1057 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1058 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1059 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1063 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1069 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1076 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1079 (this appears to be logal).
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1083 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1086 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1087 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1088 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1089 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1099 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1102 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1103 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1104 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1105 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1109 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1115 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1118 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1122 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1129 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1132 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1133 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1134 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1139 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1146 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1152 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1155 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1156 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1157 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1158 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1159 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1160 notice until v2 is complete.
1161 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1162 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1163 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1164 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1165 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1166 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1168 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1169 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1170 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1171 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1175 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1181 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1188 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1191 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1195 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1202 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1205 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1206 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1207 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1208 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1213 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1216 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1217 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1218 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1223 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1226 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1227 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1231 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1234 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1238 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1241 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1245 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1255 depend on the build and install targets.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1259 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1262 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1266 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1273 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1279 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1285 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1288 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1289 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1290 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1291 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1292 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1293 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1295 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1296 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1297 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1298 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1299 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1300 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1301 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1305 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1311 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1317 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1320 right place. Closes: #55065
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1324 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1331 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1334 * Copyright date updates.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1338 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1341 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1346 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1352 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1359 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1365 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1371 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1377 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1380 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1381 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1382 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1383 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1384 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1385 bits until all files have been registered.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1389 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_installmanpages:
1392 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1393 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1394 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1395 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1396 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1397 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1398 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1399 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1400 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1401 otherwise change the result at all.
1403 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1404 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1405 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1406 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1407 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1412 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1418 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1421 act on files that don't exist.
1422 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1423 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1424 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1426 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1427 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1428 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1429 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1433 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1439 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1445 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1448 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1452 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1455 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1457 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1458 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1459 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1463 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1466 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1467 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1468 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1469 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1470 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1471 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1472 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1474 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1476 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1480 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1487 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1493 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1499 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1502 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1506 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1512 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1518 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1521 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1522 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1523 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1524 I made some changes, though:
1525 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1526 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1527 that is a clear violation of policy.
1528 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1529 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1530 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1531 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1532 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1533 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1534 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1535 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1536 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1538 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1542 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1548 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1551 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1555 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1558 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1559 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1564 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1570 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1577 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1580 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1581 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1582 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1583 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1584 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1585 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1586 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1590 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1596 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1600 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1601 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1605 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1611 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1614 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1618 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1621 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1622 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1626 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1628 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1633 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1637 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1641 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1644 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1645 for the dependancies to be generated.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1649 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1652 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1656 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1659 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1660 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1661 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1666 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1669 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1670 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1674 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1680 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1686 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1689 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1693 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1699 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1702 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1703 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1704 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1705 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1706 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1707 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1708 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1709 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1710 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1711 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1712 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1713 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1717 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1720 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1721 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1723 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1724 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1725 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1726 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1727 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1728 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1730 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1731 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1735 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1738 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1742 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1749 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1752 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1757 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1760 for building debhelper.
1761 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1765 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1772 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1775 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1779 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1782 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1783 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1784 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1785 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1786 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1787 it's always available.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1791 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1794 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1795 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1796 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1800 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1803 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1804 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1808 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1814 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1817 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1821 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1827 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1830 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1831 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1832 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1836 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1839 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1844 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1847 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1848 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1850 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1851 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1855 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1861 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1867 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1870 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1874 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1877 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1878 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1880 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1884 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1887 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1888 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1889 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1893 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1896 things if CDPATH is set.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1900 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1909 seems to make sense for the transition.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1913 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1916 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1921 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1924 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1925 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1929 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1932 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1936 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1939 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1940 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1941 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1942 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1946 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1952 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1955 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1956 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1957 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1958 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1959 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1960 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1961 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1962 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1963 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1964 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1969 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1972 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1973 * README: mention doc/v2
1974 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1975 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1979 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1981 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1982 be using this script RSN.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1986 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1989 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1990 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1991 more than 1 init script.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1995 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1998 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2002 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Changed perl version detection.
2005 * Changed call to find.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2009 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2012 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2014 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2019 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * Really include dh_installpam.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2025 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2028 * Wrote man page for same.
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2032 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2035 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2036 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2041 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2048 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2051 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2052 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2053 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2054 x bit was being set!
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2058 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2061 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2062 well. (Closes: 38900)
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2066 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2069 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2070 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2074 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2080 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2087 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2093 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2096 help from Julian Gilbey.
2097 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2098 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2099 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2100 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2101 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2102 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2103 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2108 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2114 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2121 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2127 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2133 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2136 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2140 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2143 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2147 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2150 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2154 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2160 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2163 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2167 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2173 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2179 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2182 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2183 may be deleted. (#35845)
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2187 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Various man page enhancements.
2190 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2195 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2198 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2199 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2203 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2206 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2207 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2208 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2210 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2211 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2216 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2222 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Another very minor typo fix.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2228 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Very minor typo fix.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2234 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2237 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2238 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2242 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2248 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2251 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2252 variables properly (#34850).
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2256 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2262 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2265 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2266 (automatically generated by build process).
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2270 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2272 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2276 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2279 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2280 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2282 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2286 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2289 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2293 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * README: minor typo fix.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2299 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2302 leave it at that. :-)
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2306 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2312 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2318 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2321 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2322 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2323 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2327 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2330 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2334 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2337 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2341 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2344 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2345 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2346 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2347 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2351 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2354 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2355 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2356 Craig Small for spotting this.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2360 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2363 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2364 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2368 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2374 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2377 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2381 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2383 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2384 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2385 working on the last version of debhelper.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2389 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2392 being made. (#23255)
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2396 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2402 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2405 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2409 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2412 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2413 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2414 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2415 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2419 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2422 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2423 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2424 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2425 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2427 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2428 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2430 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2435 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2441 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2447 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2450 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2451 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2452 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2453 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2454 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2455 suidregister actually supports it.
2456 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2457 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2461 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2468 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2471 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2472 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2473 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2474 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2475 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2476 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2477 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2481 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2483 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2484 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2488 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2491 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2492 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2493 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2494 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2498 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2501 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2503 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2504 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2505 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2506 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2507 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2508 effect, either. (#30118)
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2512 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2518 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2521 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2522 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2526 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2532 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2535 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2536 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2537 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2538 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2542 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2545 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2546 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2550 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2556 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2559 packages, painlessly.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2563 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2569 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2575 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2581 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * The perl conversion is complete.
2585 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2587 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2588 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2589 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2594 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2597 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2598 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2599 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2603 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2606 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2608 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2610 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2611 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2615 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2618 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2619 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2623 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2629 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2632 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2633 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2634 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2635 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2636 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2640 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2643 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2644 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2645 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2646 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2650 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2653 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2657 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2660 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2661 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2662 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2663 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2664 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2665 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2666 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2667 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2671 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2677 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2680 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2681 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2682 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2687 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2690 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2694 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2697 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2701 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2704 sections of shared libraries.
2705 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2706 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2707 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2708 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2709 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2710 things you don't want them to.
2711 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2712 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2716 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2719 shared libraries. (#26414)
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2723 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2725 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2726 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2727 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2728 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2732 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2736 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2738 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2739 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2740 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2741 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2742 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2746 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2749 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2753 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2756 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2757 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2762 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2765 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2769 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2772 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2773 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2774 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2775 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2776 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2778 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2779 remove debian/files properly.
2780 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2781 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2782 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2783 * Removed bogus menu file.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2787 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2790 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2794 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2797 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2798 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2799 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2800 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2801 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2802 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2806 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2809 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2810 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2811 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2812 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2816 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2823 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2826 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2827 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2829 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2830 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2831 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2832 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2833 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2834 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2838 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2841 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2842 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2843 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2844 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2845 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2846 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2847 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2848 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2849 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2850 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2851 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2852 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2853 passed any switches.
2854 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2858 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2861 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2862 at all for a long while.
2863 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2864 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2865 large chunks in the process.
2866 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2867 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2868 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2873 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2876 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2878 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2883 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2886 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2887 that don't always have the same files in them.
2888 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2889 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2890 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2894 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2898 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2899 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2900 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2901 updating 27 man pages.
2902 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2903 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2904 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2905 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2906 programs act on. (#25247)
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2910 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2914 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2915 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2916 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2917 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2918 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2919 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2924 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2931 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2938 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2941 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2945 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2951 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2954 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2955 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2956 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2957 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2958 package by accident.
2959 * Is version 1.0 next?
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2963 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2966 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2967 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2971 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2974 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2975 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2976 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2977 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2978 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2980 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2985 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2988 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2989 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2993 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2996 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3000 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3003 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3004 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3009 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3015 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3018 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3019 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3024 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3030 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3033 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3034 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3035 past week. Thanks, guys!
3037 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3038 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3039 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3040 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3041 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3042 would do in the same situation.
3043 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3044 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3046 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3048 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3049 permissions changed.
3050 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3051 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3052 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3053 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3054 files are treated identically.
3055 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3056 * Minor man page fixes.
3057 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3058 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3059 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3063 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3066 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3067 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3068 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3069 use -X multiple times, too.
3070 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3071 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3075 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3078 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3079 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3083 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3086 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3090 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3093 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3094 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3095 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3096 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3097 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3098 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3099 shape if you're starting a new package.
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3103 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3106 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3110 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3113 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3114 because of missing symlinks.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3118 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3124 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3127 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3128 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3129 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3130 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3131 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3133 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3134 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3138 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3140 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3141 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3142 to be changed after the fact :-)
3143 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3147 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3149 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3150 no version string after the -V.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3154 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3156 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3157 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3162 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3165 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3169 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3172 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3173 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3174 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3175 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3176 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3177 I always welcome corrections!
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3181 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3187 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3190 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3191 * Documented this new switch.
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3195 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3198 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3199 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3200 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3201 no packages use the old behavior.
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3205 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3208 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3209 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3213 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3216 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3220 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3226 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3229 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3233 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3236 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3237 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3238 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3242 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3248 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3251 into the source package by accident.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3255 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3258 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3259 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3260 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3261 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3262 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3263 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3268 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3272 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3273 inspired to implement some of it.
3274 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3278 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3281 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3285 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3288 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3289 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3293 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3296 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3297 have done.) (#17598)
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3301 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3307 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3313 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3316 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3320 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3323 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3324 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3328 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3331 argument processor in perl.
3332 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3333 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3334 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3335 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3339 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3342 type directories. (#16933)
3343 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3344 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3345 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3346 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3347 are supported. (#16935)
3348 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3353 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3356 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3360 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3364 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3365 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3366 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3367 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3368 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3369 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3373 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3376 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3377 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3379 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3380 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3381 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3382 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3383 a given package, or -i or -a.
3384 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3385 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3386 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3387 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3388 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3389 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3390 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3391 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3392 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3394 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3395 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3396 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3400 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3403 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3404 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3409 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3412 does not have a section.
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3416 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3419 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3420 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3421 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3425 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Fixed typo #16215.
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3431 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3434 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3435 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3436 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3437 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3438 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3443 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3446 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3447 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3448 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3453 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3459 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3465 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3468 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3469 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3470 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3471 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3472 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3473 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3477 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3483 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3486 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3490 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3493 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3494 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3495 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3499 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3502 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3506 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3512 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3515 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3519 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3522 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3526 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3532 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3535 postinst, postrm, etc.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3539 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3545 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3548 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3549 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3550 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3551 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3552 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3556 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3559 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3560 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3564 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3567 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3571 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3574 installing package files into.
3575 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3580 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3584 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3588 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3594 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3597 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3601 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3604 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3605 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3606 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3607 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3611 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3613 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3614 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3615 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3616 multiple binary packages.
3617 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3618 should rebuild them with this version.
3619 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3623 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3626 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3630 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3633 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3637 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3640 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3641 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3642 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3643 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3644 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3645 debian/README.debian.
3646 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3647 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3648 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3649 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3650 in a few situations.)
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3654 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3660 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3666 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3669 * Fixed several man pages.
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3673 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3676 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3677 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3681 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3684 is ready for general use.
3685 * Added man pages for all commands.
3686 * Multiple binary package support.
3687 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3688 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3689 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3691 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3692 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3693 auto-installed as parameters.
3694 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3696 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3699 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3700 the package build directory it is to act on.
3701 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3702 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3703 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3707 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3709 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3710 ready to replace debstd.
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400