1 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
7 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
10 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
11 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
12 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
13 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
14 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
19 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
21 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
25 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
28 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
32 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
35 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
40 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Typo, Closes: #114135
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
46 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
49 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
53 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
59 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
63 Also some indentation fixes.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
67 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
70 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
71 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
72 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
73 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
74 Closes: #106514, #85520
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
78 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Typo, Closes: #104405
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
84 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
90 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
92 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
96 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
102 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
108 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
111 change it in debhelper v4..
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
115 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
121 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
124 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
128 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
131 is not essential. Closes: #100430
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
135 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
141 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
143 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
144 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
145 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
146 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
147 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
148 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
149 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
150 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
151 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
152 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
153 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
154 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
155 prefixed with ".debhelper")
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
159 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
162 look just like shared libs, but are not.
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
166 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
168 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
173 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
176 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
177 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
178 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
179 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
180 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
181 program those options go to. So, for example,
182 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
183 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
184 something complex. Closes: #89311
185 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
189 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
192 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
193 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
194 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
198 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
200 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
201 through loop. Closes: #98598
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
205 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Missing semi-colon.
208 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
209 this (dh_* should be called, really).
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
213 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
216 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
217 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
218 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
222 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
225 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
226 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
230 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
233 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
237 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
240 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
241 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
245 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
248 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
249 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
250 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
254 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
257 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
258 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
259 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
263 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
266 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
270 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
276 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Typo, Closes: #92407
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
282 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
288 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
294 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
297 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
301 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
304 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
305 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
306 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
307 followed. Closes: #85483
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
311 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
313 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
314 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
315 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
319 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
322 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
323 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
324 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
325 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
326 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
327 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
328 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
329 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
330 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
331 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
332 Closes: #88464, #77743
333 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
334 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
335 us to deal with that gracefully.
336 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
338 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
339 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
340 a while, Closes: #51225
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
344 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
350 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
353 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
357 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
361 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
366 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
369 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
370 don't make packlist files.
371 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
372 debhelper coding standards.
373 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
374 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
378 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
381 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
385 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
388 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
389 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
390 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
391 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
392 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
393 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
394 but is mildly deprecated.
395 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
396 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
397 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
398 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
399 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
400 switching to statoverrides..
401 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
402 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
403 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
404 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
405 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
406 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
408 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
409 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
410 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
411 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
412 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
413 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
414 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
415 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
416 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
418 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
419 variable names, pod man pages).
420 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
421 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
422 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
423 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
424 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
425 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
426 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
430 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
432 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
436 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
443 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
446 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
450 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
452 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
453 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
454 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
458 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
460 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
461 they were previously ignored.
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
465 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
467 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
468 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
472 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
474 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
475 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
476 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
480 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
482 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
486 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
488 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
489 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
493 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
495 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
496 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
497 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
498 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
499 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
500 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
501 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
502 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
503 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
504 it is an obsolete program.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
508 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
510 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
514 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
518 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
520 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
524 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
526 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
528 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
530 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
534 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
540 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
542 * typo: Closes, #78567
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
546 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
552 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
558 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
560 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
561 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
562 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
563 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
564 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
565 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
569 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
572 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
577 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
580 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
581 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
582 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
583 backwards-compatability.
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
587 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
589 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
590 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
591 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
592 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
593 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
594 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
595 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
597 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
598 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
599 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
601 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
603 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
604 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
605 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
606 should now be raised to severity important..
607 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
608 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
612 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
615 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
620 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Typo, Closes: #77441
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
626 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Completed the fix from the last version.
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
632 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
638 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
640 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
645 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
647 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
648 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
649 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
650 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
651 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
655 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
661 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
664 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
665 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
666 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
667 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
668 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
669 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
674 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
677 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
681 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
687 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
690 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
695 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
698 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
699 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
700 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
701 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
705 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
709 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
712 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
715 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
716 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
719 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
721 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
722 the TODO entry about it.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
726 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
733 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
736 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
737 prevent that. Closes: #73052
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
741 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Typo, Closes: #72932
744 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
745 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
746 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
747 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
751 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
757 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
764 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
767 (this appears to be logal).
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
771 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
774 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
775 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
776 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
777 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
781 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
787 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
789 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
790 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
791 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
792 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
793 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
797 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
803 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
806 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
810 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
817 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
820 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
821 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
822 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
827 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
834 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
840 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
842 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
843 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
844 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
845 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
846 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
847 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
848 notice until v2 is complete.
849 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
850 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
851 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
852 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
853 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
854 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
856 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
857 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
858 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
859 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
863 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
869 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
876 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
878 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
879 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
883 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
890 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
893 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
894 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
895 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
896 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
901 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
904 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
905 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
906 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
911 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
914 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
915 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
919 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
922 just skip files that end in -\d+.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
926 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
929 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
933 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
940 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
942 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
943 depend on the build and install targets.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
947 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
950 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
954 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
961 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
967 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
973 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
976 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
977 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
978 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
979 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
980 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
981 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
983 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
984 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
985 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
986 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
987 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
988 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
989 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
993 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
999 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1005 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1008 right place. Closes: #55065
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1012 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1019 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1022 * Copyright date updates.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1026 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1029 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1034 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1040 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1047 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1053 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1059 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1065 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1068 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1069 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1070 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1071 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1072 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1073 bits until all files have been registered.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1077 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_installmanpages:
1080 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1081 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1082 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1083 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1084 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1085 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1086 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1087 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1088 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1089 otherwise change the result at all.
1091 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1092 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1093 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1094 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1095 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1100 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1106 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1109 act on files that don't exist.
1110 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1111 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1112 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1114 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1115 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1116 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1117 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1121 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1127 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1133 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1136 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1140 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1143 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1145 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1146 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1147 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1151 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1154 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1155 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1156 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1157 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1158 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1159 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1160 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1162 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1164 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1168 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1175 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1181 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1187 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1190 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1194 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1200 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1206 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1209 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1210 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1211 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1212 I made some changes, though:
1213 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1214 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1215 that is a clear violation of policy.
1216 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1217 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1218 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1219 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1220 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1221 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1222 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1223 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1224 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1226 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1230 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1236 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1239 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1243 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1246 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1247 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1258 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1265 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1268 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1269 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1270 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1271 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1272 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1273 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1274 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1278 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1284 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1288 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1289 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1293 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1299 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1302 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1306 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1309 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1310 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1314 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1316 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1321 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1325 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1329 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1332 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1333 for the dependancies to be generated.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1337 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1340 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1344 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1347 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1348 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1349 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1354 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1357 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1358 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1362 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1368 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1374 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1377 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1381 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1387 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1390 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1391 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1392 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1393 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1394 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1395 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1396 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1397 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1398 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1399 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1400 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1401 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1405 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1408 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1409 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1411 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1412 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1413 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1414 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1415 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1416 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1418 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1419 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1423 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1426 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1430 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1437 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1440 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1445 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1448 for building debhelper.
1449 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1453 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1460 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1463 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1467 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1470 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1471 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1472 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1473 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1474 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1475 it's always available.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1479 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1482 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1483 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1484 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1488 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1491 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1492 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1496 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1502 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1505 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1509 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1515 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1518 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1519 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1520 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1524 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1527 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1532 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1535 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1536 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1538 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1539 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1543 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1549 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1555 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1558 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1562 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1565 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1566 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1568 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1572 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1575 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1576 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1577 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1581 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1584 things if CDPATH is set.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1588 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1594 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1597 seems to make sense for the transition.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1601 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1604 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1609 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1612 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1613 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1617 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1620 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1624 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1627 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1628 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1629 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1630 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1634 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1640 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1643 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1644 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1645 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1646 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1647 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1648 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1649 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1650 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1651 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1652 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1657 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1660 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1661 * README: mention doc/v2
1662 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1663 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1667 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1669 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1670 be using this script RSN.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1674 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1677 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1678 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1679 more than 1 init script.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1683 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1686 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1690 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Changed perl version detection.
1693 * Changed call to find.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1697 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1700 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1702 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1707 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * Really include dh_installpam.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1713 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1716 * Wrote man page for same.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1720 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1723 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1724 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1729 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1736 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1739 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1740 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1741 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1742 x bit was being set!
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1746 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1749 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1750 well. (Closes: 38900)
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1754 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1757 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1758 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1762 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1768 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1775 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1781 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1784 help from Julian Gilbey.
1785 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1786 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1787 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1788 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1789 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1790 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1791 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1796 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1802 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1809 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1815 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1821 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1824 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1828 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1831 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1835 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1838 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1842 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1848 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1851 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1855 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1861 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1867 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1870 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1871 may be deleted. (#35845)
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1875 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Various man page enhancements.
1878 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1883 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1886 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1887 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1891 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1894 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1895 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1896 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1898 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1899 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1904 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1910 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Another very minor typo fix.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1916 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Very minor typo fix.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1922 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1925 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1926 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1930 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1936 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1939 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1940 variables properly (#34850).
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1944 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1950 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1953 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1954 (automatically generated by build process).
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1958 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1960 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1964 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1967 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1968 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1970 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1974 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1977 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1981 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * README: minor typo fix.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1987 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1990 leave it at that. :-)
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1994 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2000 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2006 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2009 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2010 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2011 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2015 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2018 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2022 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2025 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2029 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2032 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2033 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2034 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2035 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2039 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2042 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2043 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2044 Craig Small for spotting this.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2048 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2051 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2052 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2056 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2062 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2065 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2069 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2071 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2072 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2073 working on the last version of debhelper.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2077 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2080 being made. (#23255)
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2084 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2090 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2093 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2097 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2100 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2101 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2102 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2103 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2107 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2110 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2111 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2112 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2113 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2115 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2116 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2118 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2123 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2129 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2135 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2138 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2139 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2140 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2141 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2142 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2143 suidregister actually supports it.
2144 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2145 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2149 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2156 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2159 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2160 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2161 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2162 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2163 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2164 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2165 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2169 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2171 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2172 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2176 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2179 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2180 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2181 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2182 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2186 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2189 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2191 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2192 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2193 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2194 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2195 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2196 effect, either. (#30118)
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2200 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2206 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2209 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2210 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2214 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2220 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2223 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2224 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2225 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2226 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2230 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2233 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2234 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2238 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2244 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2247 packages, painlessly.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2251 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2257 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2263 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2269 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * The perl conversion is complete.
2273 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2275 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2276 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2277 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2282 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2285 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2286 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2287 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2291 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2294 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2296 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2298 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2299 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2303 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2306 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2307 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2311 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2317 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2320 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2321 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2322 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2323 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2324 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2328 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2331 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2332 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2333 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2334 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2338 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2341 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2345 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2348 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2349 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2350 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2351 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2352 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2353 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2354 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2355 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2359 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2365 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2368 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2369 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2370 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2375 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2378 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2382 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2385 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2389 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2392 sections of shared libraries.
2393 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2394 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2395 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2396 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2397 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2398 things you don't want them to.
2399 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2400 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2404 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2407 shared libraries. (#26414)
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2411 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2413 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2414 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2415 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2416 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2420 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2424 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2426 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2427 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2428 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2429 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2430 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2434 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2437 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2441 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2444 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2445 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2450 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2453 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2457 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2460 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2461 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2462 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2463 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2464 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2466 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2467 remove debian/files properly.
2468 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2469 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2470 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2471 * Removed bogus menu file.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2475 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2478 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2482 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2485 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2486 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2487 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2488 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2489 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2490 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2494 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2497 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2498 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2499 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2500 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2504 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2511 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2514 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2515 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2517 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2518 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2519 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2520 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2521 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2522 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2526 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2529 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2530 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2531 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2532 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2533 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2534 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2535 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2536 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2537 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2538 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2539 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2540 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2541 passed any switches.
2542 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2546 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2549 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2550 at all for a long while.
2551 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2552 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2553 large chunks in the process.
2554 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2555 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2556 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2561 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2564 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2566 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2571 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2574 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2575 that don't always have the same files in them.
2576 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2577 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2578 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2582 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2586 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2587 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2588 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2589 updating 27 man pages.
2590 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2591 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2592 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2593 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2594 programs act on. (#25247)
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2598 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2602 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2603 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2604 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2605 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2606 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2607 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2612 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2619 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2626 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2629 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2633 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2639 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2642 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2643 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2644 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2645 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2646 package by accident.
2647 * Is version 1.0 next?
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2651 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2654 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2655 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2659 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2662 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2663 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2664 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2665 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2666 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2668 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2673 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2676 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2677 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2681 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2684 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2688 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2691 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2692 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2697 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2703 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2706 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2707 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2712 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2718 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2721 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2722 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2723 past week. Thanks, guys!
2725 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2726 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2727 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2728 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2729 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2730 would do in the same situation.
2731 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2732 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2734 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2736 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2737 permissions changed.
2738 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2739 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2740 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2741 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2742 files are treated identically.
2743 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2744 * Minor man page fixes.
2745 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2746 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2747 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2751 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2754 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2755 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2756 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2757 use -X multiple times, too.
2758 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2759 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2763 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2766 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2767 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2771 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2774 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2778 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2781 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2782 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2783 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2784 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2785 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2786 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2787 shape if you're starting a new package.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2791 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2794 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2798 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2801 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2802 because of missing symlinks.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2806 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2812 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2815 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2816 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2817 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2818 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2819 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2821 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2822 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2826 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2828 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2829 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2830 to be changed after the fact :-)
2831 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2835 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2838 no version string after the -V.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2842 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2844 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2845 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2850 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2853 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2857 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2860 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2861 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2862 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2863 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2864 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2865 I always welcome corrections!
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2869 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2875 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2878 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2879 * Documented this new switch.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2883 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2886 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2887 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2888 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2889 no packages use the old behavior.
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2893 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2896 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2897 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2901 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2904 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2908 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2914 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2917 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2921 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2924 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2925 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2926 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2930 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2936 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2939 into the source package by accident.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2943 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2946 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2947 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2948 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2949 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2950 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2951 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2956 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2960 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2961 inspired to implement some of it.
2962 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2966 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2969 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2973 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2976 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2977 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2981 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2984 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2985 have done.) (#17598)
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2989 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2995 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3001 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3004 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3008 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3011 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3012 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3016 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3019 argument processor in perl.
3020 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3021 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3022 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3023 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3027 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3030 type directories. (#16933)
3031 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3032 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3033 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3034 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3035 are supported. (#16935)
3036 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3041 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3044 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3048 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3052 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3053 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3054 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3055 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3056 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3057 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3061 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3064 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3065 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3067 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3068 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3069 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3070 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3071 a given package, or -i or -a.
3072 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3073 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3074 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3075 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3076 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3077 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3078 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3079 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3080 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3082 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3083 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3084 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3088 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3091 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3092 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3097 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3100 does not have a section.
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3104 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3107 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3108 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3109 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3113 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * Fixed typo #16215.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3119 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3122 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3123 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3124 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3125 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3126 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3131 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3134 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3135 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3136 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3141 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3147 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3153 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3156 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3157 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3158 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3159 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3160 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3161 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3165 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3171 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3174 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3178 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3181 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3182 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3183 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3187 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3190 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3194 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3200 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3203 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3207 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3210 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3214 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3220 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3223 postinst, postrm, etc.
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3227 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3233 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3236 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3237 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3238 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3239 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3240 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3244 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3247 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3248 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3252 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3255 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3259 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3262 installing package files into.
3263 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3268 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3272 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3276 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3282 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3285 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3289 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3292 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3293 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3294 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3295 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3299 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3301 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3302 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3303 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3304 multiple binary packages.
3305 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3306 should rebuild them with this version.
3307 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3311 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3314 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3318 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3321 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3325 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3328 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3329 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3330 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3331 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3332 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3333 debian/README.debian.
3334 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3335 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3336 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3337 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3338 in a few situations.)
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3342 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3348 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3354 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3357 * Fixed several man pages.
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3361 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3364 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3365 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3369 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3372 is ready for general use.
3373 * Added man pages for all commands.
3374 * Multiple binary package support.
3375 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3376 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3377 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3379 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3380 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3381 auto-installed as parameters.
3382 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3384 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3387 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3388 the package build directory it is to act on.
3389 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3390 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3391 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3395 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3397 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3398 ready to replace debstd.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400