1 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Typo, Closes: #122679
4 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
5 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
9 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
15 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
18 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
19 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
20 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
21 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
22 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
27 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
29 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
33 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
36 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
40 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
43 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
48 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Typo, Closes: #114135
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
54 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
57 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
61 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
67 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
71 Also some indentation fixes.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
75 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
78 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
79 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
80 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
81 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
82 Closes: #106514, #85520
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
86 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
88 * Typo, Closes: #104405
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
92 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
98 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
100 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
104 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
110 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
116 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
119 change it in debhelper v4..
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
123 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
129 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
132 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
136 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
139 is not essential. Closes: #100430
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
143 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
149 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
152 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
153 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
154 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
155 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
156 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
157 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
158 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
159 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
160 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
161 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
162 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
163 prefixed with ".debhelper")
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
167 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
170 look just like shared libs, but are not.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
174 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
181 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
184 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
185 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
186 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
187 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
188 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
189 program those options go to. So, for example,
190 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
191 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
192 something complex. Closes: #89311
193 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
197 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
200 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
201 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
202 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
206 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
209 through loop. Closes: #98598
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
213 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Missing semi-colon.
216 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
217 this (dh_* should be called, really).
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
221 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
224 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
225 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
226 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
230 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
233 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
234 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
238 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
241 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
245 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
248 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
249 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
253 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
256 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
257 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
258 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
262 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
265 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
266 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
267 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
271 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
274 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
278 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
280 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
284 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Typo, Closes: #92407
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
290 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
296 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
302 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
305 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
309 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
312 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
313 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
314 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
315 followed. Closes: #85483
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
319 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
321 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
322 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
323 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
327 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
330 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
331 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
332 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
333 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
334 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
335 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
336 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
337 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
338 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
339 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
340 Closes: #88464, #77743
341 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
342 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
343 us to deal with that gracefully.
344 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
346 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
347 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
348 a while, Closes: #51225
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
352 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
358 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
361 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
365 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
369 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
374 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
377 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
378 don't make packlist files.
379 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
380 debhelper coding standards.
381 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
382 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
386 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
389 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
393 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
396 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
397 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
398 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
399 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
400 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
401 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
402 but is mildly deprecated.
403 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
404 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
405 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
406 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
407 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
408 switching to statoverrides..
409 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
410 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
411 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
412 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
413 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
414 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
416 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
417 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
418 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
419 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
420 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
421 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
422 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
423 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
424 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
426 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
427 variable names, pod man pages).
428 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
429 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
430 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
431 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
432 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
433 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
434 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
438 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
440 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
444 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
451 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
454 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
458 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
460 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
461 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
462 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
466 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
468 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
469 they were previously ignored.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
473 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
475 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
476 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
480 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
482 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
483 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
484 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
488 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
490 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
494 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
496 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
497 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
501 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
503 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
504 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
505 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
506 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
507 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
508 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
509 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
510 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
511 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
512 it is an obsolete program.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
516 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
518 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
522 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
526 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
528 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
532 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
534 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
536 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
538 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
542 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
548 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
550 * typo: Closes, #78567
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
554 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
560 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
566 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
568 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
569 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
570 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
571 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
572 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
573 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
577 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
580 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
585 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
588 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
589 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
590 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
591 backwards-compatability.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
595 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
597 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
598 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
599 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
600 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
601 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
602 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
603 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
605 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
606 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
607 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
609 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
611 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
612 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
613 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
614 should now be raised to severity important..
615 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
616 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
620 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
623 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
628 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Typo, Closes: #77441
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
634 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Completed the fix from the last version.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
640 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
646 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
648 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
653 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
656 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
657 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
658 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
659 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
663 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
669 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
672 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
673 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
674 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
675 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
676 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
677 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
682 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
685 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
689 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
695 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
698 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
703 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
706 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
707 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
708 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
709 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
713 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
717 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
720 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
723 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
724 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
727 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
729 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
730 the TODO entry about it.
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
734 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
736 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
741 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
744 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
745 prevent that. Closes: #73052
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
749 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Typo, Closes: #72932
752 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
753 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
754 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
755 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
759 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
765 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
772 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
775 (this appears to be logal).
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
779 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
782 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
783 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
784 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
785 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
789 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
795 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
797 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
798 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
799 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
800 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
801 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
805 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
811 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
814 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
818 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
825 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
828 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
829 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
830 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
835 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
842 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
844 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
848 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
850 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
851 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
852 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
853 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
854 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
855 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
856 notice until v2 is complete.
857 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
858 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
859 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
860 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
861 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
862 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
864 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
865 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
866 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
867 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
871 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
877 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
884 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
887 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
891 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
898 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
901 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
902 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
903 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
904 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
909 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
912 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
913 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
914 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
919 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
922 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
923 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
927 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
930 just skip files that end in -\d+.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
934 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
937 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
941 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
948 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
950 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
951 depend on the build and install targets.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
955 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
958 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
962 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
969 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
975 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
981 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
984 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
985 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
986 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
987 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
988 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
989 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
991 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
992 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
993 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
994 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
995 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
996 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
997 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1001 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1007 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1013 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1016 right place. Closes: #55065
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1020 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1027 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1030 * Copyright date updates.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1034 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1037 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1042 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1048 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1055 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1061 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1067 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1073 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1076 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1077 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1078 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1079 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1080 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1081 bits until all files have been registered.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1085 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_installmanpages:
1088 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1089 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1090 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1091 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1092 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1093 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1094 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1095 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1096 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1097 otherwise change the result at all.
1099 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1100 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1101 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1102 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1103 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1108 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1114 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1117 act on files that don't exist.
1118 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1119 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1120 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1122 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1123 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1124 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1125 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1129 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1135 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1141 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1144 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1148 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1151 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1153 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1154 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1155 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1159 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1162 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1163 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1164 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1165 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1166 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1167 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1168 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1170 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1172 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1176 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1183 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1189 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1195 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1198 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1202 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1208 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1214 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1217 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1218 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1219 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1220 I made some changes, though:
1221 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1222 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1223 that is a clear violation of policy.
1224 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1225 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1226 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1227 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1228 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1229 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1230 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1231 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1232 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1234 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1238 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1244 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1247 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1251 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1254 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1255 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1260 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1266 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1273 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1276 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1277 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1278 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1279 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1280 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1281 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1282 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1286 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1292 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1296 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1297 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1301 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1307 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1310 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1314 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1317 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1318 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1322 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1324 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1329 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1333 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1337 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1340 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1341 for the dependancies to be generated.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1345 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1348 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1352 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1355 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1356 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1357 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1362 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1365 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1366 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1370 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1376 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1382 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1385 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1389 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1395 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1398 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1399 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1400 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1401 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1402 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1403 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1404 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1405 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1406 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1407 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1408 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1409 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1413 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1416 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1417 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1419 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1420 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1421 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1422 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1423 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1424 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1426 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1427 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1431 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1434 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1438 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1445 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1448 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1453 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1456 for building debhelper.
1457 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1461 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1468 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1471 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1475 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1478 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1479 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1480 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1481 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1482 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1483 it's always available.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1487 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1490 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1491 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1492 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1496 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1499 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1500 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1513 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1517 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1523 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1526 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1527 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1528 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1532 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1535 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1540 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1543 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1544 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1546 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1547 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1551 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1557 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1563 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1566 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1570 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1573 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1574 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1576 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1580 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1583 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1584 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1585 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1589 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1592 things if CDPATH is set.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1596 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1602 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1605 seems to make sense for the transition.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1609 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1612 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1617 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1620 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1621 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1625 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1628 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1632 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1635 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1636 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1637 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1638 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1642 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1648 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1651 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1652 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1653 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1654 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1655 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1656 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1657 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1658 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1659 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1660 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1665 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1668 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1669 * README: mention doc/v2
1670 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1671 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1675 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1677 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1678 be using this script RSN.
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1682 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1685 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1686 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1687 more than 1 init script.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1691 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1694 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1698 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Changed perl version detection.
1701 * Changed call to find.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1705 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1708 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1710 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1715 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * Really include dh_installpam.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1721 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1724 * Wrote man page for same.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1728 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1731 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1732 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1737 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1744 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1747 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1748 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1749 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1750 x bit was being set!
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1754 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1757 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1758 well. (Closes: 38900)
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1762 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1765 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1766 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1770 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1776 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1783 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1789 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1792 help from Julian Gilbey.
1793 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1794 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1795 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1796 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1797 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1798 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1799 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1804 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1810 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1817 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1823 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1829 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1832 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1836 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1839 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1843 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1846 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1850 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1856 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1859 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1863 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1869 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1875 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1878 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1879 may be deleted. (#35845)
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1883 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Various man page enhancements.
1886 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1891 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1894 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1895 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1899 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1902 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1903 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1904 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1906 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1907 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1912 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1918 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Another very minor typo fix.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1924 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * Very minor typo fix.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1930 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1933 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1934 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1938 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1944 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1947 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1948 variables properly (#34850).
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1952 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1958 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1961 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1962 (automatically generated by build process).
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1966 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1968 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1972 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1975 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1976 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1978 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1982 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1985 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1989 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * README: minor typo fix.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1995 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1998 leave it at that. :-)
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2002 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2008 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2014 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2017 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2018 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2019 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2023 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2026 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2030 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2033 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2037 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2040 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2041 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2042 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2043 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2047 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2050 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2051 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2052 Craig Small for spotting this.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2056 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2059 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2060 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2064 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2070 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2073 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2077 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2079 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2080 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2081 working on the last version of debhelper.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2085 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2088 being made. (#23255)
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2092 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2098 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2101 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2105 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2108 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2109 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2110 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2111 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2115 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2118 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2119 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2120 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2121 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2123 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2124 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2126 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2131 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2137 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2143 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2146 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2147 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2148 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2149 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2150 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2151 suidregister actually supports it.
2152 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2153 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2157 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2164 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2167 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2168 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2169 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2170 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2171 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2172 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2173 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2177 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2179 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2180 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2184 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2187 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2188 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2189 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2190 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2194 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2197 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2199 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2200 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2201 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2202 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2203 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2204 effect, either. (#30118)
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2208 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2214 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2217 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2218 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2222 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2228 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2231 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2232 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2233 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2234 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2238 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2241 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2242 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2246 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2252 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2255 packages, painlessly.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2259 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2265 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2271 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2277 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * The perl conversion is complete.
2281 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2283 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2284 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2285 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2290 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2293 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2294 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2295 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2299 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2302 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2304 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2306 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2307 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2311 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2314 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2315 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2319 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2325 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2328 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2329 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2330 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2331 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2332 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2336 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2339 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2340 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2341 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2342 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2346 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2349 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2353 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2356 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2357 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2358 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2359 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2360 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2361 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2362 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2363 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2367 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2373 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2376 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2377 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2378 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2383 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2386 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2390 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2393 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2397 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2400 sections of shared libraries.
2401 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2402 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2403 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2404 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2405 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2406 things you don't want them to.
2407 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2408 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2412 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2415 shared libraries. (#26414)
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2419 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2421 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2422 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2423 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2424 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2428 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2432 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2434 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2435 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2436 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2437 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2438 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2442 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2445 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2449 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2452 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2453 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2458 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2461 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2465 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2468 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2469 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2470 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2471 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2472 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2474 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2475 remove debian/files properly.
2476 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2477 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2478 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2479 * Removed bogus menu file.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2483 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2486 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2490 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2493 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2494 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2495 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2496 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2497 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2498 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2502 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2505 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2506 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2507 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2508 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2512 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2519 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2522 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2523 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2525 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2526 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2527 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2528 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2529 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2530 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2534 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2537 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2538 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2539 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2540 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2541 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2542 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2543 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2544 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2545 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2546 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2547 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2548 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2549 passed any switches.
2550 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2554 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2557 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2558 at all for a long while.
2559 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2560 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2561 large chunks in the process.
2562 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2563 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2564 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2569 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2572 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2574 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2579 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2582 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2583 that don't always have the same files in them.
2584 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2585 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2586 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2590 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2594 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2595 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2596 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2597 updating 27 man pages.
2598 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2599 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2600 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2601 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2602 programs act on. (#25247)
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2606 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2610 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2611 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2612 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2613 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2614 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2615 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2620 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2627 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2634 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2637 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2641 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2647 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2650 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2651 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2652 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2653 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2654 package by accident.
2655 * Is version 1.0 next?
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2659 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2662 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2663 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2667 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2670 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2671 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2672 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2673 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2674 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2676 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2681 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2684 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2685 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2689 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2692 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2696 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2699 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2700 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2705 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2711 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2714 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2715 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2720 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2726 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2729 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2730 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2731 past week. Thanks, guys!
2733 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2734 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2735 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2736 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2737 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2738 would do in the same situation.
2739 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2740 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2742 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2744 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2745 permissions changed.
2746 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2747 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2748 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2749 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2750 files are treated identically.
2751 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2752 * Minor man page fixes.
2753 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2754 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2755 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2759 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2762 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2763 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2764 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2765 use -X multiple times, too.
2766 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2767 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2771 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2774 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2775 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2779 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2782 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2786 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2789 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2790 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2791 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2792 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2793 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2794 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2795 shape if you're starting a new package.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2799 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2802 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2806 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2809 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2810 because of missing symlinks.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2814 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2820 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2823 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2824 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2825 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2826 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2827 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2829 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2830 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2834 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2836 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2837 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2838 to be changed after the fact :-)
2839 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2843 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2846 no version string after the -V.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2850 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2852 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2853 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2858 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2861 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2865 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2868 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2869 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2870 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2871 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2872 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2873 I always welcome corrections!
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2877 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2883 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2886 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2887 * Documented this new switch.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2891 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2894 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2895 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2896 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2897 no packages use the old behavior.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2901 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2904 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2905 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2909 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2912 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2916 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2922 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2925 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2929 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2932 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2933 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2934 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2938 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2944 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2947 into the source package by accident.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2951 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2954 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2955 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2956 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2957 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2958 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2959 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2964 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2968 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2969 inspired to implement some of it.
2970 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2974 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2977 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2981 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2984 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2985 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2989 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2992 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2993 have done.) (#17598)
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2997 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3003 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3009 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3012 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3016 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3019 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3020 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3024 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3027 argument processor in perl.
3028 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3029 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3030 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3031 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3035 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3038 type directories. (#16933)
3039 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3040 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3041 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3042 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3043 are supported. (#16935)
3044 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3049 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3052 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3056 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3060 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3061 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3062 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3063 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3064 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3065 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3069 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3072 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3073 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3075 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3076 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3077 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3078 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3079 a given package, or -i or -a.
3080 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3081 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3082 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3083 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3084 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3085 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3086 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3087 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3088 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3090 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3091 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3092 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3096 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3099 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3100 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3105 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3108 does not have a section.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3112 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3115 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3116 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3117 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3121 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Fixed typo #16215.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3127 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3130 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3131 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3132 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3133 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3134 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3139 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3142 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3143 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3144 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3149 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3155 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3161 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3164 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3165 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3166 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3167 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3168 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3169 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3173 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3179 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3182 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3186 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3189 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3190 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3191 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3195 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3198 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3202 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3208 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3211 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3215 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3218 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3222 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3228 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3231 postinst, postrm, etc.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3235 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3241 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3244 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3245 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3246 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3247 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3248 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3252 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3255 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3256 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3260 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3263 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3267 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3270 installing package files into.
3271 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3276 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3280 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3284 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3290 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3293 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3297 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3300 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3301 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3302 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3303 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3307 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3309 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3310 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3311 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3312 multiple binary packages.
3313 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3314 should rebuild them with this version.
3315 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3319 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3322 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3326 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3329 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3333 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3336 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3337 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3338 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3339 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3340 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3341 debian/README.debian.
3342 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3343 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3344 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3345 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3346 in a few situations.)
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3350 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3356 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3362 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3365 * Fixed several man pages.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3369 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3372 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3373 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3377 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3380 is ready for general use.
3381 * Added man pages for all commands.
3382 * Multiple binary package support.
3383 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3384 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3385 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3387 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3388 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3389 auto-installed as parameters.
3390 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3392 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3395 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3396 the package build directory it is to act on.
3397 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3398 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3399 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3403 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3405 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3406 ready to replace debstd.
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400