1 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
7 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
11 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
12 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
14 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
18 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
20 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
21 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
22 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
23 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
24 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
28 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
30 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
31 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
35 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
38 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
39 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
43 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
47 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
52 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
58 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
62 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
63 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
64 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
69 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
72 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
73 practice. Closes: #163303
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
77 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
83 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
90 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
92 * The "reverse hangover" release.
93 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
95 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
96 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
97 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
98 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
99 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
103 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
106 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
111 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
117 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
124 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
127 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
132 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
138 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
144 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
150 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
157 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
160 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
161 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
162 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
163 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
168 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Typo, Closes: #155323
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
174 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
181 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
184 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
185 * Removed dh_installxaw.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
189 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
192 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
193 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
194 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
195 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
196 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
200 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
203 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
205 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
210 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
212 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
213 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
217 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
220 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
221 right thing. Closes: #150644
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
225 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
232 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
234 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
239 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
242 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
243 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
248 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
254 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
257 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
261 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
264 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
265 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
270 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
273 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
277 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
283 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
286 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
287 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
291 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
297 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Removing perl warning message.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
303 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
305 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
306 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
307 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
308 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
309 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
310 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
311 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
312 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
313 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
317 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
323 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
330 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
333 debconf-mergetemplate.
334 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
335 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
339 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
342 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
343 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
344 dh_install, which ...
345 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
346 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
347 mess, as it uses debian/install.
348 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
349 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
350 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
351 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
352 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
353 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
354 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
355 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
356 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
357 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
358 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
360 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
361 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
362 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
363 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
364 course there's -X ..)
365 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
366 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
367 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
369 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
370 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
371 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
372 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
373 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
378 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
384 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Typo, Closes: #139176
387 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
391 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
397 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
403 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
409 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
415 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
418 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
419 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
420 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
421 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
423 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
424 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
428 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
434 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Typo, Closes: #132454
437 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
441 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
444 upset. Closes: #131322
446 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
448 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
451 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
452 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
453 line, as well as in debian/rules.
454 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
455 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
456 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
457 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
458 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
459 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
460 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
461 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
462 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
463 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
464 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
465 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
467 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
471 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
474 - Better indenting of generated code.
475 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
479 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
481 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
483 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
484 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
485 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
486 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
487 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
488 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
489 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
493 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
495 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
496 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
500 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
503 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
504 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
505 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
506 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
507 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
508 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
509 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
510 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
511 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
512 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
513 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
514 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
515 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
516 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
517 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
522 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
528 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
531 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
532 * fixed dh_testdir man page
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
536 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Typo, Closes: #122679
539 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
540 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
544 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
550 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
553 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
554 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
555 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
556 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
557 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
562 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
564 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
568 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
571 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
575 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
578 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
583 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Typo, Closes: #114135
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
589 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
592 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
596 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
602 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
606 Also some indentation fixes.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
610 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
613 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
614 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
615 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
616 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
617 Closes: #106514, #85520
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
621 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Typo, Closes: #104405
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
627 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
633 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
635 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
639 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
645 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
651 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
654 change it in debhelper v4..
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
658 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
664 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
667 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
671 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
674 is not essential. Closes: #100430
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
678 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
684 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
687 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
688 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
689 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
690 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
691 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
692 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
693 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
694 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
695 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
696 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
697 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
698 prefixed with ".debhelper")
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
702 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
705 look just like shared libs, but are not.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
709 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
716 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
719 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
720 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
721 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
722 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
723 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
724 program those options go to. So, for example,
725 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
726 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
727 something complex. Closes: #89311
728 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
732 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
735 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
736 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
737 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
741 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
744 through loop. Closes: #98598
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
748 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Missing semi-colon.
751 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
752 this (dh_* should be called, really).
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
756 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
759 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
760 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
761 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
765 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
768 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
769 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
773 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
775 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
776 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
780 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
782 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
783 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
784 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
788 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
791 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
792 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
793 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
797 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
800 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
801 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
802 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
806 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
809 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
813 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
819 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Typo, Closes: #92407
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
825 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
831 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
837 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
840 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
844 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
847 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
848 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
849 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
850 followed. Closes: #85483
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
854 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
856 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
857 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
858 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
862 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
865 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
866 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
867 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
868 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
869 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
870 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
871 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
872 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
873 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
874 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
875 Closes: #88464, #77743
876 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
877 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
878 us to deal with that gracefully.
879 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
881 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
882 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
883 a while, Closes: #51225
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
887 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
893 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
896 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
900 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
904 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
909 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
912 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
913 don't make packlist files.
914 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
915 debhelper coding standards.
916 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
917 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
921 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
924 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
928 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
931 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
932 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
933 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
934 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
935 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
936 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
937 but is mildly deprecated.
938 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
939 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
940 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
941 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
942 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
943 switching to statoverrides..
944 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
945 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
946 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
947 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
948 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
949 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
951 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
952 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
953 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
954 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
955 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
956 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
957 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
958 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
959 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
961 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
962 variable names, pod man pages).
963 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
964 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
965 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
966 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
967 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
968 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
969 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
973 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
979 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
986 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
989 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
993 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
995 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
996 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
997 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1001 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1003 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1004 they were previously ignored.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1008 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1010 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1011 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1015 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1017 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1018 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1019 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1023 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1025 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1029 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1031 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1032 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1036 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1038 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1039 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1040 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1041 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1042 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1043 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1044 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1045 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1046 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1047 it is an obsolete program.
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1051 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1053 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1057 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1061 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1063 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1067 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1069 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1071 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1073 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1077 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1083 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * typo: Closes, #78567
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1089 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1095 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1101 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1104 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1105 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1106 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1107 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1108 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1112 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1115 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1120 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1123 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1124 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1125 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1126 backwards-compatability.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1130 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1133 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1134 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1135 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1136 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1137 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1138 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1140 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1141 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1142 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1144 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1146 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1147 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1148 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1149 should now be raised to severity important..
1150 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1151 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1155 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1158 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1163 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1169 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1175 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1181 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1188 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1191 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1192 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1193 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1194 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1198 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1204 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1207 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1208 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1209 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1210 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1211 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1212 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1217 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1220 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1224 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1230 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1233 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1238 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1241 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1242 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1243 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1244 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1248 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1252 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1255 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1258 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1259 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1262 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1264 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1265 the TODO entry about it.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1269 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1276 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1279 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1280 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1284 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1287 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1288 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1289 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1290 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1294 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1300 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1307 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1310 (this appears to be logal).
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1314 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1317 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1318 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1319 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1320 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1324 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1330 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1333 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1334 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1335 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1336 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1340 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1346 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1349 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1353 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1360 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1363 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1364 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1365 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1370 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1377 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1383 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1386 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1387 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1388 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1389 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1390 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1391 notice until v2 is complete.
1392 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1393 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1394 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1395 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1396 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1397 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1399 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1400 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1401 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1402 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1406 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1412 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1419 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1422 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1426 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1433 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1436 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1437 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1438 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1439 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1444 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1447 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1448 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1449 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1454 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1457 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1458 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1462 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1465 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1469 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1472 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1476 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1483 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1486 depend on the build and install targets.
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1490 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1493 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1510 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1516 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1519 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1520 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1521 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1522 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1523 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1524 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1526 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1527 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1528 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1529 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1530 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1531 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1532 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1536 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1542 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1548 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1551 right place. Closes: #55065
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1555 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1562 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1565 * Copyright date updates.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1569 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1572 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1577 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1583 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1590 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1596 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1602 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1608 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1611 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1612 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1613 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1614 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1615 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1616 bits until all files have been registered.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1620 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_installmanpages:
1623 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1624 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1625 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1626 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1627 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1628 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1629 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1630 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1631 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1632 otherwise change the result at all.
1634 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1635 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1636 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1637 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1638 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1643 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1649 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1652 act on files that don't exist.
1653 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1654 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1655 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1657 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1658 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1659 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1660 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1664 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1670 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1676 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1679 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1683 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1686 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1688 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1689 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1690 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1694 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1697 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1698 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1699 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1700 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1701 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1702 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1703 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1705 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1707 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1711 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1718 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1724 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1730 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1733 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1737 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1743 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1749 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1752 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1753 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1754 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1755 I made some changes, though:
1756 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1757 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1758 that is a clear violation of policy.
1759 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1760 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1761 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1762 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1763 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1764 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1765 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1766 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1767 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1769 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1773 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1779 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1782 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1786 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1789 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1790 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1795 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1801 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1808 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1811 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1812 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1813 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1814 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1815 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1816 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1817 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1821 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1827 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1831 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1832 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1836 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1842 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1845 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1849 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1852 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1853 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1857 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1859 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1864 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1868 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1872 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1875 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1876 for the dependancies to be generated.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1880 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1883 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1887 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1890 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1891 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1892 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1897 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1900 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1901 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1905 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1911 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1917 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1920 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1924 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1930 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1933 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1934 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1935 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1936 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1937 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1938 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1939 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1940 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1941 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1942 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1943 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1944 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1948 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1951 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1952 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1954 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1955 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1956 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1957 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1958 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1959 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1961 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1962 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1966 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1969 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1973 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1980 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1983 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1988 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1991 for building debhelper.
1992 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1996 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2003 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2006 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2010 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2013 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2014 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2015 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2016 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2017 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2018 it's always available.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2022 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2025 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2026 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2027 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2031 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2034 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2035 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2039 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2045 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2048 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2052 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2058 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2061 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2062 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2063 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2067 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2070 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2075 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2078 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2079 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2081 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2082 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2086 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2092 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2098 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2101 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2105 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2108 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2109 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2111 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2115 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2118 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2119 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2120 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2124 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2127 things if CDPATH is set.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2131 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2137 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2140 seems to make sense for the transition.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2144 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2147 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2152 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2155 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2156 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2160 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2163 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2167 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2170 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2171 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2172 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2173 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2177 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2183 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2186 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2187 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2188 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2189 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2190 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2191 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2192 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2193 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2194 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2195 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2200 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2203 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2204 * README: mention doc/v2
2205 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2206 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2210 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2212 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2213 be using this script RSN.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2217 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2220 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2221 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2222 more than 1 init script.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2226 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2229 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2233 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Changed perl version detection.
2236 * Changed call to find.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2240 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2243 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2245 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2250 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Really include dh_installpam.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2256 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2259 * Wrote man page for same.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2263 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2266 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2267 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2272 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2279 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2282 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2283 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2284 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2285 x bit was being set!
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2289 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2292 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2293 well. (Closes: 38900)
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2297 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2300 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2301 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2305 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2311 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2318 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2324 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2327 help from Julian Gilbey.
2328 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2329 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2330 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2331 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2332 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2333 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2334 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2339 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2345 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2352 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2358 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2364 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2367 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2371 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2374 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2378 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2381 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2385 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2391 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2394 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2398 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2404 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2410 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2413 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2414 may be deleted. (#35845)
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2418 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Various man page enhancements.
2421 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2426 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2429 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2430 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2434 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2437 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2438 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2439 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2441 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2442 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2447 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2453 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Another very minor typo fix.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2459 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Very minor typo fix.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2465 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2468 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2469 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2473 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2479 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2482 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2483 variables properly (#34850).
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2487 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2493 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2496 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2497 (automatically generated by build process).
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2501 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2503 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2507 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2510 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2511 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2513 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2517 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2520 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2524 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * README: minor typo fix.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2530 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2533 leave it at that. :-)
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2537 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2543 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2549 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2552 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2553 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2554 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2558 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2561 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2565 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2568 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2572 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2575 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2576 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2577 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2578 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2582 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2585 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2586 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2587 Craig Small for spotting this.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2591 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2594 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2595 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2599 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2605 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2608 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2612 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2614 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2615 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2616 working on the last version of debhelper.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2620 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2623 being made. (#23255)
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2627 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2633 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2636 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2640 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2643 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2644 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2645 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2646 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2650 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2653 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2654 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2655 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2656 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2658 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2659 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2661 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2666 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2672 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2678 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2681 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2682 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2683 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2684 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2685 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2686 suidregister actually supports it.
2687 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2688 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2692 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2699 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2702 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2703 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2704 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2705 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2706 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2707 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2708 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2712 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2714 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2715 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2719 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2722 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2723 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2724 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2725 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2729 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2732 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2734 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2735 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2736 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2737 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2738 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2739 effect, either. (#30118)
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2743 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2749 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2752 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2753 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2757 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2763 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2766 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2767 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2768 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2769 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2773 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2776 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2777 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2781 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2787 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2790 packages, painlessly.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2794 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2800 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2806 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2812 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * The perl conversion is complete.
2816 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2818 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2819 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2820 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2825 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2828 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2829 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2830 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2834 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2837 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2839 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2841 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2842 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2846 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2849 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2850 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2854 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2860 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2863 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2864 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2865 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2866 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2867 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2871 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2874 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2875 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2876 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2877 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2881 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2884 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2888 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2891 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2892 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2893 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2894 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2895 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2896 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2897 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2898 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2902 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2908 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2911 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2912 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2913 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2918 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2921 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2925 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2928 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2932 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2935 sections of shared libraries.
2936 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2937 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2938 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2939 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2940 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2941 things you don't want them to.
2942 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2943 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2947 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2950 shared libraries. (#26414)
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2954 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2956 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2957 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2958 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2959 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2963 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2967 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2969 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2970 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2971 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2972 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2973 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2977 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2980 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2984 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2987 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2988 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2993 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2996 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3000 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3003 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3004 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3005 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3006 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3007 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3009 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3010 remove debian/files properly.
3011 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3012 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3013 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3014 * Removed bogus menu file.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3018 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3021 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3025 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3028 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3029 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3030 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3031 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3032 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3033 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3037 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3040 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3041 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3042 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3043 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3047 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3054 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3057 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3058 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3060 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3061 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3062 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3063 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3064 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3065 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3069 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3072 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3073 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3074 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3075 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3076 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3077 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3078 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3079 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3080 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3081 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3082 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3083 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3084 passed any switches.
3085 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3089 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3092 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3093 at all for a long while.
3094 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3095 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3096 large chunks in the process.
3097 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3098 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3099 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3104 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3107 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3109 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3114 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3117 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3118 that don't always have the same files in them.
3119 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3120 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3121 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3125 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3129 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3130 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3131 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3132 updating 27 man pages.
3133 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3134 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3135 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3136 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3137 programs act on. (#25247)
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3141 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3145 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3146 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3147 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3148 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3149 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3150 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3155 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3162 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3169 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3172 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3176 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3182 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3185 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3186 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3187 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3188 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3189 package by accident.
3190 * Is version 1.0 next?
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3194 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3197 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3198 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3202 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3205 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3206 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3207 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3208 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3209 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3211 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3216 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3219 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3220 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3224 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3227 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3231 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3234 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3235 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3240 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3246 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3249 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3250 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3255 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3261 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3264 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3265 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3266 past week. Thanks, guys!
3268 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3269 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3270 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3271 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3272 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3273 would do in the same situation.
3274 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3275 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3277 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3279 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3280 permissions changed.
3281 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3282 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3283 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3284 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3285 files are treated identically.
3286 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3287 * Minor man page fixes.
3288 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3289 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3290 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3294 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3297 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3298 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3299 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3300 use -X multiple times, too.
3301 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3302 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3306 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3309 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3310 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3314 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3317 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3321 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3324 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3325 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3326 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3327 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3328 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3329 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3330 shape if you're starting a new package.
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3334 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3337 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3341 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3344 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3345 because of missing symlinks.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3349 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3355 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3358 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3359 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3360 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3361 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3362 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3364 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3365 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3369 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3371 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3372 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3373 to be changed after the fact :-)
3374 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3378 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3381 no version string after the -V.
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3385 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3387 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3388 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3393 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3396 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3400 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3403 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3404 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3405 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3406 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3407 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3408 I always welcome corrections!
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3412 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3418 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3421 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3422 * Documented this new switch.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3426 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3429 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3430 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3431 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3432 no packages use the old behavior.
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3436 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3439 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3440 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3444 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3447 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3451 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3457 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3460 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3464 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3467 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3468 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3469 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3473 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3479 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3482 into the source package by accident.
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3486 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3489 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3490 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3491 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3492 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3493 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3494 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3499 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3503 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3504 inspired to implement some of it.
3505 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3509 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3512 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3516 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3519 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3520 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3524 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3527 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3528 have done.) (#17598)
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3532 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3538 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3544 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3547 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3551 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3554 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3555 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3559 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3562 argument processor in perl.
3563 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3564 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3565 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3566 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3570 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3573 type directories. (#16933)
3574 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3575 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3576 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3577 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3578 are supported. (#16935)
3579 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3584 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3587 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3591 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3595 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3596 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3597 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3598 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3599 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3600 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3604 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3607 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3608 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3610 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3611 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3612 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3613 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3614 a given package, or -i or -a.
3615 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3616 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3617 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3618 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3619 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3620 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3621 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3622 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3623 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3625 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3626 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3627 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3631 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3634 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3635 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3640 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3643 does not have a section.
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3647 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3650 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3651 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3652 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3656 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Fixed typo #16215.
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3662 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3665 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3666 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3667 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3668 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3669 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3674 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3677 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3678 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3679 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3684 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3690 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3696 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3699 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3700 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3701 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3702 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3703 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3704 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3708 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3714 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3717 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3721 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3724 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3725 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3726 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3730 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3733 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3737 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3743 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3746 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3750 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3753 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3757 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3763 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3766 postinst, postrm, etc.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3770 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3776 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3779 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3780 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3781 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3782 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3783 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3787 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3790 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3791 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3795 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3798 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3802 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3805 installing package files into.
3806 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3811 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3815 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3819 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3825 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3828 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3832 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3835 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3836 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3837 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3838 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3842 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3844 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3845 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3846 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3847 multiple binary packages.
3848 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3849 should rebuild them with this version.
3850 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3854 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3857 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3861 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3864 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3868 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3871 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3872 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3873 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3874 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3875 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3876 debian/README.debian.
3877 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3878 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3879 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3880 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3881 in a few situations.)
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3885 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3891 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3897 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3900 * Fixed several man pages.
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3904 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3907 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3908 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3912 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3915 is ready for general use.
3916 * Added man pages for all commands.
3917 * Multiple binary package support.
3918 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3919 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3920 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3922 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3923 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3924 auto-installed as parameters.
3925 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3927 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3930 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3931 the package build directory it is to act on.
3932 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3933 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3934 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3938 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3940 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3941 ready to replace debstd.
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400