1 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
4 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
8 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
14 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
17 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
18 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
22 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
28 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Removing perl warning message.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
34 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
37 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
38 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
39 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
40 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
41 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
42 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
43 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
44 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
48 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
54 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
61 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
64 debconf-mergetemplate.
65 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
66 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
70 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
73 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
74 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
76 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
77 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
78 mess, as it uses debian/install.
79 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
80 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
81 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
82 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
83 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
84 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
85 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
86 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
87 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
88 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
89 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
91 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
92 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
93 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
94 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
96 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
97 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
98 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
100 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
101 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
102 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
103 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
104 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
109 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
115 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Typo, Closes: #139176
118 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
122 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
128 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
134 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
140 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
146 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
149 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
150 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
151 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
152 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
154 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
155 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
159 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
165 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Typo, Closes: #132454
168 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
172 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
175 upset. Closes: #131322
177 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
179 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
182 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
183 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
184 line, as well as in debian/rules.
185 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
186 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
187 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
188 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
189 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
190 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
191 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
192 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
193 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
194 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
195 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
196 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
198 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
202 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
205 - Better indenting of generated code.
206 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
210 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
214 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
215 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
216 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
217 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
218 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
219 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
220 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
224 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
227 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
231 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
234 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
235 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
236 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
237 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
238 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
239 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
240 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
241 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
242 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
243 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
244 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
245 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
246 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
247 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
248 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
253 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
259 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
262 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
263 * fixed dh_testdir man page
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
267 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Typo, Closes: #122679
270 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
271 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
275 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
281 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
284 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
285 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
286 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
287 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
288 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
293 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
295 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
299 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
302 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
306 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
309 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
314 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Typo, Closes: #114135
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
320 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
323 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
327 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
333 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
337 Also some indentation fixes.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
341 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
344 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
345 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
346 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
347 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
348 Closes: #106514, #85520
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
352 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Typo, Closes: #104405
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
358 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
364 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
366 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
370 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
376 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
382 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
385 change it in debhelper v4..
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
389 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
395 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
398 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
402 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
405 is not essential. Closes: #100430
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
409 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
415 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
418 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
419 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
420 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
421 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
422 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
423 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
424 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
425 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
426 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
427 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
428 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
429 prefixed with ".debhelper")
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
433 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
436 look just like shared libs, but are not.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
440 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
447 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
450 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
451 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
452 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
453 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
454 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
455 program those options go to. So, for example,
456 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
457 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
458 something complex. Closes: #89311
459 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
463 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
465 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
466 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
467 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
468 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
472 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
475 through loop. Closes: #98598
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
479 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Missing semi-colon.
482 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
483 this (dh_* should be called, really).
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
487 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
490 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
491 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
492 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
496 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
499 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
500 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
504 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
507 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
511 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
514 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
515 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
519 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
522 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
523 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
524 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
528 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
531 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
532 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
533 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
537 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
540 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
544 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
550 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Typo, Closes: #92407
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
556 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
562 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
568 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
571 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
575 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
578 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
579 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
580 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
581 followed. Closes: #85483
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
585 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
587 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
588 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
589 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
593 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
596 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
597 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
598 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
599 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
600 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
601 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
602 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
603 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
604 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
605 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
606 Closes: #88464, #77743
607 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
608 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
609 us to deal with that gracefully.
610 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
612 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
613 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
614 a while, Closes: #51225
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
618 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
624 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
627 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
631 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
635 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
640 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
643 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
644 don't make packlist files.
645 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
646 debhelper coding standards.
647 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
648 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
652 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
655 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
659 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
662 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
663 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
664 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
665 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
666 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
667 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
668 but is mildly deprecated.
669 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
670 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
671 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
672 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
673 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
674 switching to statoverrides..
675 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
676 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
677 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
678 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
679 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
680 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
682 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
683 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
684 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
685 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
686 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
687 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
688 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
689 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
690 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
692 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
693 variable names, pod man pages).
694 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
695 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
696 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
697 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
698 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
699 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
700 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
704 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
710 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
717 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
720 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
724 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
726 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
727 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
728 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
732 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
734 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
735 they were previously ignored.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
739 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
741 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
742 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
746 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
748 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
749 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
750 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
754 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
756 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
760 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
762 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
763 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
767 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
769 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
770 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
771 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
772 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
773 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
774 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
775 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
776 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
777 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
778 it is an obsolete program.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
782 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
784 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
788 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
792 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
794 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
798 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
800 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
802 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
804 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
808 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
814 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
816 * typo: Closes, #78567
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
820 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
826 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
832 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
834 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
835 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
836 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
837 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
838 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
839 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
843 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
846 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
851 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
854 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
855 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
856 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
857 backwards-compatability.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
861 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
863 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
864 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
865 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
866 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
867 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
868 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
869 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
871 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
872 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
873 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
875 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
877 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
878 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
879 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
880 should now be raised to severity important..
881 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
882 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
886 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
888 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
889 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
894 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Typo, Closes: #77441
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
900 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Completed the fix from the last version.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
906 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
912 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
914 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
919 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
922 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
923 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
924 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
925 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
929 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
935 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
938 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
939 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
940 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
941 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
942 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
943 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
948 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
951 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
955 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
961 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
964 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
969 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
972 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
973 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
974 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
975 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
979 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
983 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
986 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
989 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
990 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
993 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
995 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
996 the TODO entry about it.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1000 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1007 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1010 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1011 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1015 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1018 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1019 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1020 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1021 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1025 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1031 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1038 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1041 (this appears to be logal).
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1045 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1048 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1049 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1050 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1051 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1055 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1061 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1064 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1065 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1066 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1067 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1071 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1077 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1080 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1084 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1091 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1094 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1095 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1096 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1101 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1108 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1114 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1117 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1118 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1119 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1120 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1121 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1122 notice until v2 is complete.
1123 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1124 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1125 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1126 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1127 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1128 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1130 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1131 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1132 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1133 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1137 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1143 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1150 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1153 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1157 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1164 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1167 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1168 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1169 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1170 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1175 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1178 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1179 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1180 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1185 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1188 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1189 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1193 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1196 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1200 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1203 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1207 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1214 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1217 depend on the build and install targets.
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1221 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1224 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1228 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1235 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1241 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1247 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1250 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1251 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1252 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1253 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1254 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1255 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1257 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1258 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1259 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1260 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1261 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1262 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1263 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1267 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1273 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1279 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1282 right place. Closes: #55065
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1286 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1293 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1296 * Copyright date updates.
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1300 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1303 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1308 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1314 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1321 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1327 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1333 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1339 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1342 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1343 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1344 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1345 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1346 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1347 bits until all files have been registered.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1351 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_installmanpages:
1354 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1355 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1356 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1357 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1358 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1359 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1360 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1361 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1362 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1363 otherwise change the result at all.
1365 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1366 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1367 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1368 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1369 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1374 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1380 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1383 act on files that don't exist.
1384 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1385 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1386 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1388 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1389 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1390 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1391 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1395 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1401 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1407 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1410 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1414 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1417 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1419 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1420 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1421 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1425 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1428 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1429 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1430 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1431 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1432 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1433 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1434 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1436 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1438 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1442 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1449 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1455 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1461 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1464 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1468 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1474 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1480 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1483 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1484 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1485 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1486 I made some changes, though:
1487 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1488 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1489 that is a clear violation of policy.
1490 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1491 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1492 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1493 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1494 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1495 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1496 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1497 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1498 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1500 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1513 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1517 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1520 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1521 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1526 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1532 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1539 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1542 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1543 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1544 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1545 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1546 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1547 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1548 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1552 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1558 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1562 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1563 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1567 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1573 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1576 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1580 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1583 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1584 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1588 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1590 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1595 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1599 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1603 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1606 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1607 for the dependancies to be generated.
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1611 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1614 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1618 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1621 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1622 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1623 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1628 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1631 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1632 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1636 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1642 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1648 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1651 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1655 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1661 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1664 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1665 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1666 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1667 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1668 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1669 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1670 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1671 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1672 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1673 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1674 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1675 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1679 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1682 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1683 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1685 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1686 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1687 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1688 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1689 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1690 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1692 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1693 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1697 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1700 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1704 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1711 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1714 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1719 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1722 for building debhelper.
1723 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1727 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1734 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1737 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1741 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1744 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1745 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1746 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1747 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1748 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1749 it's always available.
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1753 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1756 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1757 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1758 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1762 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1765 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1766 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1770 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1776 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1779 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1783 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1789 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1792 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1793 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1794 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1798 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1801 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1806 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1809 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1810 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1812 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1813 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1817 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1823 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1829 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1832 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1836 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1839 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1840 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1842 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1846 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1849 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1850 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1851 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1855 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1858 things if CDPATH is set.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1862 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1868 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1871 seems to make sense for the transition.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1875 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1878 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1883 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1886 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1887 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1891 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1894 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1898 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1901 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1902 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1903 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1904 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1908 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1914 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1917 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1918 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1919 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1920 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1921 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1922 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1923 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1924 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1925 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1926 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1931 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1934 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1935 * README: mention doc/v2
1936 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1937 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1941 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1943 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1944 be using this script RSN.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1948 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1951 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1952 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1953 more than 1 init script.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1957 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1960 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1964 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Changed perl version detection.
1967 * Changed call to find.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1971 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1974 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1976 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1981 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Really include dh_installpam.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1987 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1990 * Wrote man page for same.
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1994 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1997 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1998 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2003 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2010 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2013 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2014 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2015 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2016 x bit was being set!
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2020 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2023 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2024 well. (Closes: 38900)
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2028 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2031 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2032 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2036 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2042 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2049 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2055 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2058 help from Julian Gilbey.
2059 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2060 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2061 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2062 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2063 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2064 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2065 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2070 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2076 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2083 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2089 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2095 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2098 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2102 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2105 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2109 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2112 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2116 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2122 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2125 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2129 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2135 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2141 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2144 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2145 may be deleted. (#35845)
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2149 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Various man page enhancements.
2152 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2157 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2160 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2161 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2165 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2168 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2169 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2170 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2172 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2173 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2178 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2184 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * Another very minor typo fix.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2190 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Very minor typo fix.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2196 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2199 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2200 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2204 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2210 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2213 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2214 variables properly (#34850).
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2218 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2224 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2227 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2228 (automatically generated by build process).
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2232 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2234 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2238 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2241 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2242 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2244 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2248 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2251 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2255 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * README: minor typo fix.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2261 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2264 leave it at that. :-)
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2268 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2274 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2280 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2283 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2284 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2285 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2289 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2292 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2296 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2299 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2303 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2306 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2307 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2308 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2309 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2313 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2316 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2317 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2318 Craig Small for spotting this.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2322 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2325 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2326 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2330 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2336 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2339 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2343 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2345 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2346 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2347 working on the last version of debhelper.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2351 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2354 being made. (#23255)
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2358 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2364 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2367 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2371 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2374 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2375 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2376 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2377 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2381 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2384 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2385 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2386 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2387 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2389 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2390 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2392 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2397 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2403 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2409 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2412 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2413 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2414 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2415 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2416 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2417 suidregister actually supports it.
2418 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2419 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2423 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2430 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2433 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2434 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2435 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2436 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2437 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2438 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2439 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2443 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2445 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2446 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2450 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2453 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2454 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2455 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2456 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2460 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2463 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2465 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2466 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2467 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2468 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2469 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2470 effect, either. (#30118)
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2474 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2480 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2483 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2484 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2488 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2494 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2497 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2498 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2499 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2500 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2504 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2507 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2508 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2512 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2518 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2521 packages, painlessly.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2525 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2531 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2537 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2543 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * The perl conversion is complete.
2547 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2549 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2550 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2551 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2556 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2559 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2560 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2561 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2565 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2568 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2570 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2572 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2573 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2577 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2580 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2581 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2585 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2591 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2594 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2595 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2596 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2597 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2598 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2602 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2605 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2606 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2607 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2608 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2612 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2615 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2619 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2622 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2623 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2624 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2625 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2626 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2627 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2628 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2629 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2633 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2639 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2642 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2643 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2644 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2649 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2652 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2656 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2659 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2663 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2666 sections of shared libraries.
2667 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2668 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2669 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2670 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2671 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2672 things you don't want them to.
2673 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2674 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2678 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2681 shared libraries. (#26414)
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2685 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2687 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2688 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2689 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2690 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2694 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2698 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2700 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2701 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2702 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2703 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2704 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2708 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2711 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2715 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2718 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2719 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2724 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2727 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2731 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2734 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2735 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2736 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2737 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2738 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2740 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2741 remove debian/files properly.
2742 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2743 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2744 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2745 * Removed bogus menu file.
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2749 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2752 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2756 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2759 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2760 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2761 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2762 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2763 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2764 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2768 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2771 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2772 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2773 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2774 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2778 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2785 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2788 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2789 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2791 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2792 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2793 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2794 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2795 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2796 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2800 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2803 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2804 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2805 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2806 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2807 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2808 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2809 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2810 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2811 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2812 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2813 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2814 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2815 passed any switches.
2816 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2820 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2823 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2824 at all for a long while.
2825 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2826 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2827 large chunks in the process.
2828 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2829 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2830 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2835 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2838 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2840 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2845 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2848 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2849 that don't always have the same files in them.
2850 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2851 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2852 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2856 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2860 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2861 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2862 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2863 updating 27 man pages.
2864 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2865 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2866 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2867 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2868 programs act on. (#25247)
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2872 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2876 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2877 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2878 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2879 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2880 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2881 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2886 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2893 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2900 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2903 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2907 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2913 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2916 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2917 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2918 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2919 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2920 package by accident.
2921 * Is version 1.0 next?
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2925 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2928 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2929 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2933 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2936 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2937 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2938 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2939 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2940 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2942 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2947 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2950 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2951 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2955 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2958 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2962 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2965 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2966 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2971 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2977 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2980 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2981 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2986 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2992 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2995 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2996 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2997 past week. Thanks, guys!
2999 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3000 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3001 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3002 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3003 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3004 would do in the same situation.
3005 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3006 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3008 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3010 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3011 permissions changed.
3012 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3013 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3014 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3015 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3016 files are treated identically.
3017 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3018 * Minor man page fixes.
3019 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3020 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3021 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3025 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3028 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3029 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3030 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3031 use -X multiple times, too.
3032 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3033 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3037 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3040 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3041 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3045 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3048 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3052 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3055 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3056 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3057 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3058 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3059 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3060 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3061 shape if you're starting a new package.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3065 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3068 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3072 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3075 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3076 because of missing symlinks.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3080 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3086 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3089 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3090 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3091 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3092 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3093 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3095 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3096 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3100 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3102 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3103 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3104 to be changed after the fact :-)
3105 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3109 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3111 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3112 no version string after the -V.
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3116 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3118 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3119 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3124 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3127 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3131 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3134 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3135 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3136 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3137 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3138 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3139 I always welcome corrections!
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3143 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3149 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3152 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3153 * Documented this new switch.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3157 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3160 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3161 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3162 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3163 no packages use the old behavior.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3167 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3170 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3171 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3175 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3178 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3182 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3188 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3191 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3195 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3198 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3199 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3200 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3204 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3210 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3213 into the source package by accident.
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3217 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3220 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3221 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3222 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3223 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3224 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3225 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3230 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3234 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3235 inspired to implement some of it.
3236 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3240 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3243 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3247 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3250 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3251 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3255 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3258 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3259 have done.) (#17598)
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3263 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3269 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3275 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3278 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3282 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3285 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3286 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3290 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3293 argument processor in perl.
3294 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3295 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3296 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3297 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3301 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3304 type directories. (#16933)
3305 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3306 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3307 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3308 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3309 are supported. (#16935)
3310 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3315 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3318 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3322 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3326 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3327 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3328 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3329 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3330 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3331 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3335 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3338 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3339 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3341 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3342 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3343 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3344 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3345 a given package, or -i or -a.
3346 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3347 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3348 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3349 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3350 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3351 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3352 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3353 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3354 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3356 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3357 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3358 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3362 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3365 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3366 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3371 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3374 does not have a section.
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3378 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3381 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3382 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3383 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3387 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * Fixed typo #16215.
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3393 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3396 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3397 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3398 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3399 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3400 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3405 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3408 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3409 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3410 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3415 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3421 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3427 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3430 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3431 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3432 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3433 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3434 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3435 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3439 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3445 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3448 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3452 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3455 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3456 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3457 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3461 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3464 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3468 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3474 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3477 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3481 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3484 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3488 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3494 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3497 postinst, postrm, etc.
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3501 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3507 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3510 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3511 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3512 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3513 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3514 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3518 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3521 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3522 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3526 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3529 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3533 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3536 installing package files into.
3537 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3542 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3546 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3550 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3556 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3559 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3563 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3566 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3567 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3568 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3569 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3573 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3575 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3576 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3577 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3578 multiple binary packages.
3579 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3580 should rebuild them with this version.
3581 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3585 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3588 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3592 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3595 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3599 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3602 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3603 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3604 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3605 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3606 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3607 debian/README.debian.
3608 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3609 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3610 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3611 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3612 in a few situations.)
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3616 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3622 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3628 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3631 * Fixed several man pages.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3635 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3638 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3639 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3643 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3646 is ready for general use.
3647 * Added man pages for all commands.
3648 * Multiple binary package support.
3649 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3650 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3651 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3653 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3654 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3655 auto-installed as parameters.
3656 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3658 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3661 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3662 the package build directory it is to act on.
3663 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3664 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3665 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3669 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3671 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3672 ready to replace debstd.
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400