1 debhelper (4.2.33) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
4 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
5 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
6 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
7 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
8 * dh_md5sums: Don't pass "." to find, so results don't have ./ prepended,
9 which broke exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
10 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
14 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
17 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
18 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
19 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
24 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
27 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
28 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
33 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
36 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
37 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
38 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
43 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
46 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
47 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
48 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
52 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
58 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
65 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
68 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
69 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
70 unknown. Closes: #282924
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
74 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
81 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Spanish man page updates.
84 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
89 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
95 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
98 * dh_desktop: reindent
99 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
100 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
104 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
110 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
112 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
116 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
118 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
122 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367a
125 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378a
126 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
130 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
136 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
142 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
149 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
152 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
156 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
159 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
160 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
161 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
162 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
163 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
164 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
166 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
167 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
168 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
169 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
170 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
171 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
172 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
173 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
174 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
175 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
176 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
177 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
178 in the others, and added a few new tests.
179 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
180 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
181 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
185 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
192 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
195 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
199 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
202 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
206 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
209 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
213 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
216 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
220 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
226 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
232 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
238 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
241 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
242 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
243 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
247 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
250 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
254 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
257 but occasionally right and necessary.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
261 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
264 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
265 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
266 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
267 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
268 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937a
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
272 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
274 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
275 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
277 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
278 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
279 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
280 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
281 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
282 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
283 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
284 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
285 postinst scripts for udebs.
286 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
290 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
293 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
295 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
296 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
300 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
306 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
313 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
320 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
323 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
327 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
330 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
334 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
336 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
337 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
340 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
341 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
345 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
351 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
354 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
358 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
361 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
362 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
363 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
365 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
367 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
368 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
369 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
373 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
375 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
376 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
381 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
383 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
384 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
385 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
386 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
391 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
393 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
397 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
403 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
406 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
407 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
408 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
409 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
410 associated -dbg packages.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
414 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
417 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
421 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
424 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
428 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
431 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
435 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
438 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
443 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Typo. Closes: #207999
446 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
450 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
453 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
458 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
460 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
461 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
465 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
467 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
469 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
470 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
471 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
472 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
473 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
474 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
475 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
476 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
477 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
478 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
482 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
485 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
490 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
493 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
494 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
498 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
501 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
502 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
507 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
510 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
514 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
517 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
521 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
524 out section number. Closes: #204731
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
528 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
535 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
541 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
547 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Typo, Closes: #203907
550 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
551 removal. Closes: #204286
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
555 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
558 renaming. Closes: #203548
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
562 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
565 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
566 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
570 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
576 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
582 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
588 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
591 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
592 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
593 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
597 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
600 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
601 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
605 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
611 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
618 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
621 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
626 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
629 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
633 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
636 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
638 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
639 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
643 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
646 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
651 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
654 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
658 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
664 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
666 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
670 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
673 it break hard links (see #188663).
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
677 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
680 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
684 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
690 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
694 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
695 debconf-mergetemplates
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
699 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
702 pod2man. Closes: #184013
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
706 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
709 * Typo, Closes: #183267
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
713 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
716 * Update debhelper(1).
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
720 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
722 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
723 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
724 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
725 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
726 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
727 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
731 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
734 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
735 the shell. Closes: #178524
736 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
740 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
743 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
747 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
750 undocumented.7 links anymore.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
754 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
756 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
757 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
758 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
759 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
760 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
765 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
768 files from installation.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
772 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
775 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
776 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
780 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
783 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
787 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
790 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
794 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
800 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
806 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
810 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
811 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
813 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
817 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
820 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
821 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
822 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
823 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
827 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
829 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
830 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
834 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
837 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
838 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
842 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
844 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
846 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
851 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
857 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
861 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
862 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
863 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
868 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
871 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
872 practice. Closes: #163303
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
876 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
882 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
889 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
891 * The "reverse hangover" release.
892 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
894 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
895 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
896 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
897 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
898 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
902 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
905 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
910 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
916 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
923 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
926 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
931 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
937 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
943 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
949 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
956 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
959 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
960 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
961 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
962 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
967 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Typo, Closes: #155323
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
973 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
980 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
983 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
984 * Removed dh_installxaw.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
988 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
990 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
991 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
992 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
993 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
994 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
995 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
999 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1002 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1004 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1009 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1012 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1016 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1019 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1020 right thing. Closes: #150644
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1024 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Stupid, evil typo.
1027 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1031 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1038 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1041 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1042 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1047 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1053 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1056 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1060 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1063 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1064 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1069 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1072 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1076 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1082 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1085 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1086 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1090 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1096 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Removing perl warning message.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1102 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1105 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1106 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1107 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1108 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1109 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1110 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1111 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1112 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1116 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1122 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1129 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1132 debconf-mergetemplate.
1133 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1134 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1138 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1141 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1142 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1143 dh_install, which ...
1144 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1145 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1146 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1147 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1148 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1149 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1150 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1151 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1152 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1153 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1154 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1155 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1156 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1157 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1158 other minor changes.
1159 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1160 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1161 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1162 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1163 course there's -X ..)
1164 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1165 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1166 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1168 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1169 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1170 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1171 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1172 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1177 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1183 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1186 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1190 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1196 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1202 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1208 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1214 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1217 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1218 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1219 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1220 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1222 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1223 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1227 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1233 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1236 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1240 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1243 upset. Closes: #131322
1245 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1247 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1250 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1251 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1252 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1253 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1254 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1255 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1256 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1257 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1258 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1259 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1260 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1261 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1262 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1263 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1264 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1266 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1270 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1273 - Better indenting of generated code.
1274 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1278 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1282 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1283 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1284 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1285 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1286 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1287 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1288 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1292 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1295 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1299 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1302 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1303 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1304 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1305 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1306 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1307 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1308 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1309 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1310 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1311 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1312 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1313 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1314 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1315 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1316 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1321 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1327 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1330 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1331 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1335 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1338 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1339 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1343 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1349 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1352 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1353 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1354 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1355 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1356 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1361 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1367 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1370 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1374 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1377 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1382 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1388 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1391 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1395 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1401 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1405 Also some indentation fixes.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1409 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1412 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1413 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1414 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1415 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1416 Closes: #106514, #85520
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1420 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1426 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1432 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1438 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1444 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1450 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1453 change it in debhelper v4..
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1457 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1463 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1466 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1470 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1473 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1477 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1483 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1486 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1487 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1488 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1489 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1490 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1491 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1492 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1493 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1494 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1495 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1496 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1497 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1501 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1504 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1508 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1515 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1518 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1519 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1520 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1521 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1522 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1523 program those options go to. So, for example,
1524 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1525 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1526 something complex. Closes: #89311
1527 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1531 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1534 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1535 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1536 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1540 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1543 through loop. Closes: #98598
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1547 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Missing semi-colon.
1550 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1551 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1555 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1558 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1559 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1560 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1564 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1567 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1568 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1572 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1575 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1579 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1582 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1583 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1587 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1590 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1591 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1592 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1596 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1599 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1600 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1601 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1605 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1608 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1612 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1618 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1624 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1630 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1636 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1639 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1643 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1646 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1647 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1648 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1649 followed. Closes: #85483
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1653 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1655 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1656 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1657 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1661 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1664 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1665 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1666 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1667 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1668 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1669 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1670 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1671 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1672 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1673 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1674 Closes: #88464, #77743
1675 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1676 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1677 us to deal with that gracefully.
1678 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1680 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1681 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1682 a while, Closes: #51225
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1686 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1692 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1695 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1699 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1703 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1708 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1711 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1712 don't make packlist files.
1713 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1714 debhelper coding standards.
1715 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1716 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1720 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1723 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1727 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1730 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1731 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1732 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1733 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1734 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1735 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1736 but is mildly deprecated.
1737 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1738 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1739 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1740 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1741 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1742 switching to statoverrides..
1743 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1744 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1745 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1746 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1747 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1748 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1750 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1751 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1752 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1753 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1754 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1755 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1756 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1757 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1758 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1760 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1761 variable names, pod man pages).
1762 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1763 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1764 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1765 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1766 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1767 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1768 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1772 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1778 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1785 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1788 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1792 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1794 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1795 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1796 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1800 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1802 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1803 they were previously ignored.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1807 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1809 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1810 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1814 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1816 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1817 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1818 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1822 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1824 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1828 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1830 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1831 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1835 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1837 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1838 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1839 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1840 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1841 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1842 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1843 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1844 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1845 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1846 it is an obsolete program.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1850 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1852 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1856 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1860 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1862 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1866 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1868 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1870 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1872 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1876 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1882 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * typo: Closes, #78567
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1888 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1894 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1900 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1903 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1904 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1905 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1906 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1907 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1911 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1914 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1919 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1922 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1923 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1924 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1925 backwards-compatability.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1929 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1932 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1933 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1934 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1935 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1936 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1937 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1939 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1940 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1941 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1943 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1945 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1946 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1947 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1948 should now be raised to severity important..
1949 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1950 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1954 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1957 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1962 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1968 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1974 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1980 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1987 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1990 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1991 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1992 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1993 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1997 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2003 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2006 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2007 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2008 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2009 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2010 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2011 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2016 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2019 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2023 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2029 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2032 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2037 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2040 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2041 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2042 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2043 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2047 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2051 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2054 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2057 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2058 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2061 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2063 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2064 the TODO entry about it.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2068 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2075 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2078 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2079 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2083 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2086 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2087 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2088 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2089 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2093 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2099 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2106 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2109 (this appears to be logal).
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2113 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2116 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2117 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2118 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2119 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2123 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2129 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2132 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2133 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2134 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2135 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2139 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2145 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2148 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2152 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2159 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2162 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2163 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2164 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2169 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2176 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2182 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2185 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2186 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2187 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2188 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2189 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2190 notice until v2 is complete.
2191 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2192 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2193 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2194 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2195 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2196 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2198 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2199 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2200 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2201 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2205 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2211 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2218 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2221 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2225 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2232 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2235 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2236 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2237 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2238 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2243 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2246 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2247 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2248 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2253 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2256 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2257 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2261 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2264 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2268 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2271 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2275 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2282 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2285 depend on the build and install targets.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2289 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2292 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2296 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2303 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2309 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2315 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2318 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2319 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2320 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2321 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2322 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2323 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2325 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2326 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2327 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2328 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2329 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2330 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2331 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2335 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2341 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2347 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2350 right place. Closes: #55065
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2354 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2361 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2364 * Copyright date updates.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2368 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2371 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2376 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2382 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2389 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2395 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2401 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2407 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2410 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2411 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2412 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2413 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2414 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2415 bits until all files have been registered.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2419 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_installmanpages:
2422 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2423 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2424 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2425 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2426 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2427 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2428 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2429 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2430 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2431 otherwise change the result at all.
2433 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2434 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2435 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2436 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2437 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2442 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2448 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2451 act on files that don't exist.
2452 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2453 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2454 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2456 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2457 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2458 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2459 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2463 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2469 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2475 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2478 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2482 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2485 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2487 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2488 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2489 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2493 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2496 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2497 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2498 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2499 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2500 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2501 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2502 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2504 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2506 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2510 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2517 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2523 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2529 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2532 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2536 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2542 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2548 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2551 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2552 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2553 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2554 I made some changes, though:
2555 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2556 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2557 that is a clear violation of policy.
2558 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2559 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2560 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2561 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2562 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2563 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2564 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2565 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2566 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2568 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2572 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2578 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2581 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2585 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2588 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2589 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2594 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2600 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2607 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2610 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2611 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2612 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2613 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2614 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2615 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2616 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2620 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2626 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2630 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2631 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2635 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2641 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2644 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2648 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2651 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2652 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2656 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2658 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2663 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2667 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2671 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2674 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2675 for the dependancies to be generated.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2679 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2682 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2686 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2689 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2690 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2691 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2696 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2699 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2700 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2704 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2710 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2716 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2719 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2723 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2729 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2732 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2733 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2734 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2735 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2736 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2737 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2738 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2739 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2740 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2741 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2742 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2743 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2747 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2750 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2751 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2753 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2754 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2755 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2756 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2757 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2758 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2760 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2761 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2765 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2768 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2772 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2779 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2782 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2787 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2790 for building debhelper.
2791 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2795 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2802 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2805 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2809 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2812 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2813 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2814 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2815 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2816 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2817 it's always available.
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2821 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2824 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2825 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2826 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2830 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2833 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2834 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2838 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2844 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2847 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2851 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2857 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2860 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2861 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2862 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2866 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2869 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2874 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2877 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2878 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2880 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2881 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2885 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2891 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2897 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2900 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2904 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2907 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2908 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2910 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2914 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2917 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2918 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2919 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2923 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2926 things if CDPATH is set.
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2930 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2936 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2939 seems to make sense for the transition.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2943 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2946 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2951 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2954 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2955 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2959 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2962 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2966 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2969 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2970 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2971 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2972 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2976 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2982 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2985 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2986 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2987 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2988 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2989 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2990 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2991 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2992 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2993 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2994 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2999 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3002 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3003 * README: mention doc/v2
3004 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3005 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3009 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3011 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3012 be using this script RSN.
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3016 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3019 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3020 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3021 more than 1 init script.
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3025 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3028 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3032 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Changed perl version detection.
3035 * Changed call to find.
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3039 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3042 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3044 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3049 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Really include dh_installpam.
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3055 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3058 * Wrote man page for same.
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3062 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3065 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3066 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3071 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3078 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3081 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3082 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3083 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3084 x bit was being set!
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3088 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3091 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3092 well. (Closes: 38900)
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3096 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3099 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3100 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3104 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3110 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3117 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3123 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3126 help from Julian Gilbey.
3127 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3128 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3129 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3130 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3131 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3132 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3133 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3138 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3144 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3151 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3157 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3163 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3166 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3170 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3173 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3177 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3180 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3184 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3190 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3193 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3197 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3203 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3209 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3212 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3213 may be deleted. (#35845)
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3217 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * Various man page enhancements.
3220 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3225 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3228 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3229 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3233 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3236 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3237 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3238 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3240 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3241 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3246 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3252 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Another very minor typo fix.
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3258 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Very minor typo fix.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3264 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3267 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3268 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3272 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3278 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3281 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3282 variables properly (#34850).
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3286 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3292 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3295 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3296 (automatically generated by build process).
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3300 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3302 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3306 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3309 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3310 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3312 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3316 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3319 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3323 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * README: minor typo fix.
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3329 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3332 leave it at that. :-)
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3336 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3342 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3348 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3351 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3352 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3353 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3357 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3360 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3364 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3367 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3371 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3374 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3375 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3376 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3377 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3381 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3384 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3385 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3386 Craig Small for spotting this.
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3390 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3393 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3394 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3398 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3404 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3407 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3411 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3413 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3414 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3415 working on the last version of debhelper.
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3419 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3422 being made. (#23255)
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3426 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3432 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3435 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3439 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3442 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3443 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3444 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3445 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3449 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3452 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3453 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3454 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3455 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3457 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3458 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3460 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3465 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3471 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3477 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3480 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3481 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3482 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3483 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3484 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3485 suidregister actually supports it.
3486 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3487 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3491 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3498 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3501 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3502 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3503 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3504 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3505 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3506 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3507 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3511 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3513 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3514 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3518 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3521 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3522 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3523 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3524 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3528 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3531 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3533 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3534 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3535 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3536 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3537 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3538 effect, either. (#30118)
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3542 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3548 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3551 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3552 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3556 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3562 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3565 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3566 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3567 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3568 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3572 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3575 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3576 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3580 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3586 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3589 packages, painlessly.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3593 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3599 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3605 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3611 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * The perl conversion is complete.
3615 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3617 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3618 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3619 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3624 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3627 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3628 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3629 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3633 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3636 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3638 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3640 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3641 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3645 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3648 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3649 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3653 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3659 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3662 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3663 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3664 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3665 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3666 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3670 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3673 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3674 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3675 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3676 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3680 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3683 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3687 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3690 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3691 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3692 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3693 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3694 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3695 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3696 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3697 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3701 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3707 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3710 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3711 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3712 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3717 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3720 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3724 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3727 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3731 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3734 sections of shared libraries.
3735 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3736 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3737 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3738 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3739 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3740 things you don't want them to.
3741 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3742 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3746 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3749 shared libraries. (#26414)
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3753 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3755 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3756 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3757 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3758 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3762 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3766 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3768 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3769 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3770 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3771 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3772 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3776 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3779 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3783 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3786 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3787 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3792 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3795 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3799 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3802 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3803 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3804 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3805 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3806 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3808 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3809 remove debian/files properly.
3810 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3811 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3812 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3813 * Removed bogus menu file.
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3817 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3820 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3824 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3827 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3828 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3829 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3830 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3831 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3832 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3836 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3839 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3840 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3841 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3842 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3846 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3853 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3856 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3857 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3859 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3860 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3861 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3862 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3863 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3864 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3868 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3871 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3872 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3873 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3874 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3875 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3876 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3877 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3878 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3879 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3880 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3881 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3882 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3883 passed any switches.
3884 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3888 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3891 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3892 at all for a long while.
3893 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3894 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3895 large chunks in the process.
3896 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3897 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3898 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3903 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3906 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3908 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3913 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3916 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3917 that don't always have the same files in them.
3918 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3919 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3920 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3924 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3928 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3929 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3930 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3931 updating 27 man pages.
3932 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3933 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3934 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3935 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3936 programs act on. (#25247)
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3940 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3944 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3945 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3946 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3947 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3948 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3949 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3954 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3961 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3968 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3971 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3975 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3981 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3984 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3985 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3986 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3987 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3988 package by accident.
3989 * Is version 1.0 next?
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3993 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3996 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3997 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4001 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4004 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4005 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4006 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4007 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4008 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4010 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4015 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4018 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4019 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4023 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4026 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4030 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4033 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4034 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4039 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4045 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4048 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4049 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4054 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4060 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4063 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4064 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4065 past week. Thanks, guys!
4067 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4068 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4069 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4070 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4071 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4072 would do in the same situation.
4073 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4074 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4076 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4078 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4079 permissions changed.
4080 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4081 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4082 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4083 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4084 files are treated identically.
4085 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4086 * Minor man page fixes.
4087 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4088 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4089 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4093 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4096 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4097 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4098 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4099 use -X multiple times, too.
4100 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4101 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4105 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4108 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4109 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4113 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4116 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4120 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4123 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4124 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4125 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4126 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4127 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4128 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4129 shape if you're starting a new package.
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4133 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4136 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4140 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4143 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4144 because of missing symlinks.
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4148 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4154 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4157 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4158 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4159 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4160 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4161 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4163 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4164 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4168 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4170 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4171 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4172 to be changed after the fact :-)
4173 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4177 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4179 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4180 no version string after the -V.
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4184 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4186 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4187 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4192 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4195 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4199 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4202 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4203 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4204 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4205 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4206 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4207 I always welcome corrections!
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4211 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4217 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4220 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4221 * Documented this new switch.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4225 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4228 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4229 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4230 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4231 no packages use the old behavior.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4235 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4238 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4239 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4243 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4246 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4250 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4256 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4259 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4263 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4266 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4267 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4268 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4272 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4278 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4281 into the source package by accident.
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4285 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4288 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4289 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4290 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4291 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4292 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4293 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4298 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4302 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4303 inspired to implement some of it.
4304 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4308 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4311 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4315 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4318 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4319 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4323 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4326 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4327 have done.) (#17598)
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4331 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4337 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4343 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4346 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4350 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4353 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4354 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4358 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4361 argument processor in perl.
4362 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4363 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4364 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4365 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4369 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4372 type directories. (#16933)
4373 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4374 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4375 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4376 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4377 are supported. (#16935)
4378 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4383 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4386 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4390 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4394 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4395 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4396 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4397 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4398 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4399 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4403 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4406 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4407 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4409 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4410 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4411 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4412 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4413 a given package, or -i or -a.
4414 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4415 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4416 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4417 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4418 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4419 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4420 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4421 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4422 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4424 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4425 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4426 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4430 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4433 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4434 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4439 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4442 does not have a section.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4446 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4449 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4450 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4451 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4455 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * Fixed typo #16215.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4461 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4464 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4465 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4466 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4467 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4468 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4473 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4476 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4477 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4478 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4483 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4489 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4495 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4498 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4499 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4500 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4501 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4502 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4503 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4507 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4509 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4513 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4516 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4520 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4523 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4524 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4525 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4529 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4532 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4536 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4542 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4545 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4549 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4552 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4556 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4562 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4565 postinst, postrm, etc.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4569 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4575 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4578 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4579 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4580 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4581 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4582 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4586 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4589 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4590 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4594 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4597 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4601 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4604 installing package files into.
4605 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4610 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4614 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4618 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4624 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4627 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4631 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4634 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4635 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4636 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4637 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4641 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4643 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4644 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4645 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4646 multiple binary packages.
4647 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4648 should rebuild them with this version.
4649 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4653 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4656 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4660 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4663 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4667 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4670 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4671 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4672 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4673 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4674 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4675 debian/README.debian.
4676 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4677 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4678 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4679 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4680 in a few situations.)
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4684 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4690 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4696 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4699 * Fixed several man pages.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4703 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4706 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4707 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4711 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4714 is ready for general use.
4715 * Added man pages for all commands.
4716 * Multiple binary package support.
4717 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4718 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4719 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4721 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4722 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4723 auto-installed as parameters.
4724 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4726 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4729 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4730 the package build directory it is to act on.
4731 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4732 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4733 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4737 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4739 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4740 ready to replace debstd.
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400