1 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
4 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
5 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
9 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
13 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
18 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
24 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
28 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
29 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
30 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
35 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
38 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
39 practice. Closes: #163303
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
43 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
49 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
56 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
58 * The "reverse hangover" release.
59 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
61 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
62 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
63 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
64 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
65 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
69 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
72 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
77 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
83 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
85 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
90 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
93 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
98 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
104 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
110 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
116 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
123 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
126 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
127 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
128 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
129 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
134 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Typo, Closes: #155323
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
140 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
147 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
150 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
151 * Removed dh_installxaw.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
155 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
158 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
159 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
160 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
161 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
162 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
166 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
169 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
171 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
176 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
178 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
179 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
183 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
186 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
187 right thing. Closes: #150644
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
191 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
198 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
200 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
205 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
208 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
209 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
214 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
216 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
220 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
223 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
227 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
230 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
231 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
236 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
239 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
243 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
249 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
252 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
253 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
257 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
263 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Removing perl warning message.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
269 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
272 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
273 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
274 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
275 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
276 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
277 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
278 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
279 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
283 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
289 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
296 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
299 debconf-mergetemplate.
300 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
301 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
305 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
308 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
309 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
310 dh_install, which ...
311 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
312 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
313 mess, as it uses debian/install.
314 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
315 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
316 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
317 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
318 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
319 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
320 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
321 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
322 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
323 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
324 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
326 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
327 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
328 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
329 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
330 course there's -X ..)
331 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
332 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
333 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
335 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
336 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
337 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
338 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
339 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
344 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
350 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Typo, Closes: #139176
353 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
357 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
363 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
369 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
375 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
377 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
381 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
383 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
384 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
385 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
386 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
387 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
389 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
390 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
394 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
400 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Typo, Closes: #132454
403 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
407 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
410 upset. Closes: #131322
412 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
414 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
417 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
418 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
419 line, as well as in debian/rules.
420 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
421 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
422 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
423 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
424 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
425 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
426 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
427 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
428 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
429 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
430 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
431 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
433 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
437 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
440 - Better indenting of generated code.
441 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
445 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
449 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
450 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
451 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
452 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
453 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
454 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
455 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
459 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
462 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
466 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
469 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
470 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
471 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
472 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
473 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
474 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
475 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
476 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
477 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
478 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
479 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
480 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
481 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
482 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
483 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
488 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
494 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
497 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
498 * fixed dh_testdir man page
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
502 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Typo, Closes: #122679
505 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
506 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
510 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
516 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
519 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
520 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
521 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
522 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
523 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
528 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
530 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
534 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
537 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
541 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
544 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
549 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Typo, Closes: #114135
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
555 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
558 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
562 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
568 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
572 Also some indentation fixes.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
576 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
579 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
580 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
581 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
582 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
583 Closes: #106514, #85520
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
587 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Typo, Closes: #104405
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
593 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
599 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
601 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
605 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
611 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
617 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
620 change it in debhelper v4..
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
624 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
630 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
633 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
637 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
640 is not essential. Closes: #100430
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
644 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
650 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
653 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
654 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
655 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
656 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
657 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
658 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
659 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
660 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
661 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
662 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
663 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
664 prefixed with ".debhelper")
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
668 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
671 look just like shared libs, but are not.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
675 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
682 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
685 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
686 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
687 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
688 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
689 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
690 program those options go to. So, for example,
691 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
692 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
693 something complex. Closes: #89311
694 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
698 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
701 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
702 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
703 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
707 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
710 through loop. Closes: #98598
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
714 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Missing semi-colon.
717 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
718 this (dh_* should be called, really).
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
722 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
725 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
726 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
727 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
731 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
734 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
735 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
739 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
742 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
746 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
749 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
750 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
754 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
757 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
758 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
759 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
763 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
766 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
767 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
768 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
772 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
774 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
775 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
779 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
781 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
785 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Typo, Closes: #92407
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
791 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
797 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
803 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
806 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
810 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
813 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
814 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
815 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
816 followed. Closes: #85483
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
820 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
822 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
823 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
824 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
828 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
831 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
832 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
833 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
834 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
835 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
836 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
837 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
838 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
839 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
840 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
841 Closes: #88464, #77743
842 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
843 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
844 us to deal with that gracefully.
845 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
847 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
848 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
849 a while, Closes: #51225
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
853 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
859 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
862 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
866 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
870 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
875 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
878 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
879 don't make packlist files.
880 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
881 debhelper coding standards.
882 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
883 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
887 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
889 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
890 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
894 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
897 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
898 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
899 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
900 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
901 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
902 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
903 but is mildly deprecated.
904 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
905 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
906 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
907 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
908 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
909 switching to statoverrides..
910 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
911 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
912 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
913 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
914 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
915 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
917 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
918 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
919 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
920 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
921 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
922 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
923 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
924 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
925 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
927 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
928 variable names, pod man pages).
929 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
930 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
931 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
932 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
933 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
934 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
935 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
939 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
945 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
952 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
955 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
959 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
961 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
962 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
963 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
967 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
969 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
970 they were previously ignored.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
974 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
976 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
977 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
981 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
983 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
984 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
985 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
989 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
991 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
995 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
997 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
998 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1002 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1004 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1005 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1006 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1007 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1008 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1009 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1010 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1011 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1012 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1013 it is an obsolete program.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1017 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1019 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1023 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1027 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1029 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1033 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1035 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1037 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1039 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1043 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1049 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * typo: Closes, #78567
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1055 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1061 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1067 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1070 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1071 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1072 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1073 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1074 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1078 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1081 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1086 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1089 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1090 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1091 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1092 backwards-compatability.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1096 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1099 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1100 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1101 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1102 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1103 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1104 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1106 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1107 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1108 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1110 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1112 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1113 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1114 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1115 should now be raised to severity important..
1116 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1117 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1121 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1124 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1129 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1135 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1141 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1147 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1154 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1157 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1158 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1159 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1160 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1164 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1170 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1173 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1174 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1175 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1176 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1177 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1178 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1183 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1186 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1190 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1196 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1199 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1204 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1207 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1208 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1209 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1210 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1214 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1218 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1221 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1224 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1225 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1228 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1230 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1231 the TODO entry about it.
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1235 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1242 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1245 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1246 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1250 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1253 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1254 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1255 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1256 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1260 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1266 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1273 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1276 (this appears to be logal).
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1280 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1283 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1284 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1285 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1286 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1290 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1296 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1299 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1300 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1301 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1302 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1306 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1312 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1315 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1319 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1326 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1329 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1330 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1331 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1336 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1343 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1349 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1352 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1353 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1354 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1355 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1356 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1357 notice until v2 is complete.
1358 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1359 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1360 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1361 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1362 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1363 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1365 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1366 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1367 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1368 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1372 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1378 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1385 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1388 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1392 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1399 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1402 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1403 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1404 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1405 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1410 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1413 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1414 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1415 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1420 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1423 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1424 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1428 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1431 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1435 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1438 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1442 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1449 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1452 depend on the build and install targets.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1456 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1459 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1463 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1470 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1476 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1482 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1485 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1486 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1487 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1488 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1489 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1490 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1492 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1493 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1494 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1495 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1496 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1497 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1498 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1502 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1508 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1514 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1517 right place. Closes: #55065
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1521 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1528 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1531 * Copyright date updates.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1535 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1538 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1543 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1549 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1556 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1562 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1568 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1574 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1577 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1578 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1579 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1580 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1581 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1582 bits until all files have been registered.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1586 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installmanpages:
1589 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1590 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1591 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1592 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1593 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1594 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1595 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1596 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1597 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1598 otherwise change the result at all.
1600 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1601 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1602 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1603 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1604 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1609 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1615 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1618 act on files that don't exist.
1619 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1620 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1621 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1623 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1624 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1625 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1626 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1630 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1636 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1642 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1645 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1649 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1652 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1654 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1655 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1656 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1660 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1663 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1664 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1665 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1666 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1667 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1668 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1669 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1671 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1673 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1677 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1684 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1690 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1696 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1699 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1703 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1709 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1715 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1718 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1719 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1720 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1721 I made some changes, though:
1722 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1723 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1724 that is a clear violation of policy.
1725 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1726 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1727 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1728 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1729 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1730 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1731 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1732 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1733 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1735 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1739 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1745 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1748 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1752 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1755 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1756 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1761 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1767 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1774 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1777 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1778 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1779 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1780 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1781 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1782 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1783 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1787 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1793 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1797 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1798 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1802 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1808 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1811 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1818 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1819 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1823 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1825 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1830 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1834 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1838 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1841 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1842 for the dependancies to be generated.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1846 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1849 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1853 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1856 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1857 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1858 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1863 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1866 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1867 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1871 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1877 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1883 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1886 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1890 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1896 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1899 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1900 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1901 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1902 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1903 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1904 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1905 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1906 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1907 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1908 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1909 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1910 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1914 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1917 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1918 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1920 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1921 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1922 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1923 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1924 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1925 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1927 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1928 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1932 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1935 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1939 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1946 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1949 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1954 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1957 for building debhelper.
1958 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1962 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1969 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1972 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1976 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1979 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1980 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1981 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1982 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1983 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1984 it's always available.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1988 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1991 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1992 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1993 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1997 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2000 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2001 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2005 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2011 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2014 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2018 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2024 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2027 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2028 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2029 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2033 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2036 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2041 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2044 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2045 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2047 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2048 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2052 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2058 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2064 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2067 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2071 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2074 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2075 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2077 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2081 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2084 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2085 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2086 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2090 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2093 things if CDPATH is set.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2097 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2103 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2106 seems to make sense for the transition.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2110 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2113 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2118 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2121 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2122 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2126 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2129 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2133 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2136 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2137 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2138 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2139 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2143 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2149 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2152 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2153 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2154 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2155 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2156 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2157 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2158 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2159 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2160 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2161 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2166 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2169 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2170 * README: mention doc/v2
2171 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2172 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2176 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2178 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2179 be using this script RSN.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2183 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2186 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2187 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2188 more than 1 init script.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2192 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2195 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2199 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Changed perl version detection.
2202 * Changed call to find.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2206 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2209 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2211 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2216 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Really include dh_installpam.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2222 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2225 * Wrote man page for same.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2229 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2232 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2233 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2238 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2245 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2248 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2249 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2250 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2251 x bit was being set!
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2255 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2258 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2259 well. (Closes: 38900)
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2263 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2266 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2267 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2271 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2277 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2284 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2290 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2293 help from Julian Gilbey.
2294 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2295 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2296 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2297 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2298 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2299 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2300 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2305 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2311 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2318 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2324 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2330 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2333 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2337 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2340 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2344 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2347 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2351 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2357 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2360 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2364 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2370 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2376 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2379 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2380 may be deleted. (#35845)
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2384 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * Various man page enhancements.
2387 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2392 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2395 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2396 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2400 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2403 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2404 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2405 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2407 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2408 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2413 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2419 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Another very minor typo fix.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2425 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * Very minor typo fix.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2431 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2434 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2435 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2439 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2445 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2448 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2449 variables properly (#34850).
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2453 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2459 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2462 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2463 (automatically generated by build process).
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2467 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2469 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2473 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2476 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2477 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2479 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2483 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2486 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2490 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * README: minor typo fix.
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2496 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2499 leave it at that. :-)
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2503 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2509 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2515 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2518 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2519 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2520 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2524 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2527 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2531 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2534 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2538 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2541 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2542 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2543 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2544 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2548 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2551 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2552 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2553 Craig Small for spotting this.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2557 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2560 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2561 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2565 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2571 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2574 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2578 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2580 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2581 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2582 working on the last version of debhelper.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2586 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2589 being made. (#23255)
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2593 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2599 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2602 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2606 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2609 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2610 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2611 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2612 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2616 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2619 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2620 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2621 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2622 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2624 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2625 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2627 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2632 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2638 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2644 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2647 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2648 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2649 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2650 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2651 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2652 suidregister actually supports it.
2653 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2654 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2658 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2665 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2668 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2669 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2670 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2671 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2672 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2673 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2674 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2678 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2680 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2681 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2685 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2688 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2689 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2690 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2691 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2695 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2698 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2700 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2701 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2702 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2703 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2704 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2705 effect, either. (#30118)
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2709 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2715 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2718 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2719 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2723 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2729 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2732 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2733 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2734 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2735 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2739 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2742 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2743 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2747 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2753 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2756 packages, painlessly.
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2760 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2766 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2772 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2778 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * The perl conversion is complete.
2782 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2784 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2785 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2786 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2791 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2794 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2795 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2796 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2800 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2803 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2805 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2807 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2808 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2812 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2815 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2816 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2820 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2826 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2829 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2830 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2831 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2832 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2833 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2837 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2840 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2841 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2842 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2843 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2847 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2850 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2854 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2857 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2858 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2859 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2860 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2861 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2862 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2863 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2864 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2868 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2874 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2877 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2878 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2879 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2884 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2887 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2891 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2894 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2898 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2901 sections of shared libraries.
2902 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2903 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2904 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2905 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2906 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2907 things you don't want them to.
2908 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2909 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2913 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2916 shared libraries. (#26414)
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2920 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2922 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2923 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2924 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2925 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2929 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2933 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2935 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2936 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2937 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2938 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2939 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2943 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2946 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2950 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2953 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2954 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2959 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2962 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2966 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2969 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2970 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2971 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2972 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2973 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2975 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2976 remove debian/files properly.
2977 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2978 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2979 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2980 * Removed bogus menu file.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2984 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2987 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2991 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2994 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2995 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2996 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2997 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2998 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2999 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3003 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3006 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3007 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3008 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3009 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3013 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3020 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3023 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3024 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3026 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3027 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3028 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3029 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3030 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3031 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3035 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3038 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3039 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3040 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3041 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3042 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3043 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3044 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3045 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3046 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3047 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3048 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3049 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3050 passed any switches.
3051 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3055 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3058 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3059 at all for a long while.
3060 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3061 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3062 large chunks in the process.
3063 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3064 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3065 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3070 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3073 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3075 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3080 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3083 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3084 that don't always have the same files in them.
3085 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3086 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3087 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3091 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3095 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3096 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3097 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3098 updating 27 man pages.
3099 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3100 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3101 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3102 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3103 programs act on. (#25247)
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3107 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3111 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3112 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3113 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3114 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3115 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3116 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3121 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3128 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3135 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3138 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3142 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3148 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3151 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3152 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3153 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3154 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3155 package by accident.
3156 * Is version 1.0 next?
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3160 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3163 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3164 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3168 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3171 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3172 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3173 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3174 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3175 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3177 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3182 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3185 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3186 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3190 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3193 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3197 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3200 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3201 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3206 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3212 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3215 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3216 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3221 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3227 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3230 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3231 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3232 past week. Thanks, guys!
3234 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3235 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3236 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3237 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3238 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3239 would do in the same situation.
3240 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3241 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3243 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3245 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3246 permissions changed.
3247 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3248 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3249 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3250 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3251 files are treated identically.
3252 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3253 * Minor man page fixes.
3254 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3255 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3256 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3260 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3263 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3264 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3265 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3266 use -X multiple times, too.
3267 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3268 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3272 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3275 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3276 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3280 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3283 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3287 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3290 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3291 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3292 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3293 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3294 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3295 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3296 shape if you're starting a new package.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3300 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3303 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3307 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3310 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3311 because of missing symlinks.
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3315 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3321 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3324 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3325 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3326 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3327 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3328 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3330 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3331 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3335 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3337 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3338 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3339 to be changed after the fact :-)
3340 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3344 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3347 no version string after the -V.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3351 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3353 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3354 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3359 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3362 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3366 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3369 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3370 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3371 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3372 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3373 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3374 I always welcome corrections!
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3378 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3384 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3387 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3388 * Documented this new switch.
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3392 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3395 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3396 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3397 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3398 no packages use the old behavior.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3402 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3405 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3406 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3410 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3413 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3417 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3423 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3426 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3430 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3433 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3434 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3435 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3439 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3445 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3448 into the source package by accident.
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3452 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3455 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3456 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3457 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3458 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3459 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3460 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3465 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3469 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3470 inspired to implement some of it.
3471 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3475 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3478 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3482 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3485 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3486 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3490 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3493 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3494 have done.) (#17598)
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3498 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3504 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3510 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3513 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3517 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3520 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3521 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3525 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3528 argument processor in perl.
3529 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3530 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3531 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3532 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3536 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3539 type directories. (#16933)
3540 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3541 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3542 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3543 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3544 are supported. (#16935)
3545 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3550 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3553 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3557 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3561 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3562 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3563 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3564 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3565 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3566 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3570 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3573 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3574 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3576 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3577 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3578 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3579 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3580 a given package, or -i or -a.
3581 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3582 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3583 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3584 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3585 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3586 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3587 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3588 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3589 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3591 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3592 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3593 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3597 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3600 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3601 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3606 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3609 does not have a section.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3613 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3616 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3617 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3618 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3622 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * Fixed typo #16215.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3628 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3631 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3632 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3633 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3634 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3635 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3640 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3643 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3644 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3645 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3650 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3656 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3662 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3665 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3666 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3667 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3668 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3669 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3670 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3674 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3680 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3683 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3687 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3690 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3691 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3692 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3696 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3699 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3703 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3709 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3712 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3716 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3719 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3723 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3729 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3732 postinst, postrm, etc.
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3736 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3742 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3745 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3746 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3747 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3748 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3749 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3753 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3756 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3757 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3761 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3764 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3768 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3771 installing package files into.
3772 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3777 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3781 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3785 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3791 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3794 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3798 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3801 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3802 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3803 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3804 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3808 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3810 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3811 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3812 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3813 multiple binary packages.
3814 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3815 should rebuild them with this version.
3816 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3820 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3823 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3827 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3830 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3834 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3837 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3838 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3839 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3840 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3841 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3842 debian/README.debian.
3843 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3844 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3845 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3846 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3847 in a few situations.)
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3851 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3857 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3863 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3866 * Fixed several man pages.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3870 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3873 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3874 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3878 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3881 is ready for general use.
3882 * Added man pages for all commands.
3883 * Multiple binary package support.
3884 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3885 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3886 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3888 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3889 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3890 auto-installed as parameters.
3891 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3893 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3896 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3897 the package build directory it is to act on.
3898 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3899 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3900 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3904 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3906 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3907 ready to replace debstd.
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400